This is Rob's department, but since he's away I'll note that the idea that Stephen Walt had an undistinguished academic career prior to his LRB article (which I happen to think is not his finest hour) is crazy. He's a major international relations scholar; I...
Author: Scott Lemieux
An absolute must-read piece by Eric Boehlert on "journalist" Jeff Gerth and the "reporting" that ended up with a President being impeached. His primary strategy is to blame many of.
I'm not sure what's more embarrassing--Politico chief political columnist Roger Simon ignoring Romney's basic ignorance (or rank dishonesty) about a massively important issue, or skipping that boring stuff to discuss.
Steve Gillard's Times obituary. (Via Shakes.)
Speaking of Judge Southwick and peremptory challenges, this is interesting. Apparently he (along with a majority of his colleagues in Mississippi) is sometimes sympathetic to claims of racial discrimination. If.
I suppose it's not exactly shocking that the internet's premier source for political haircut news would uncritically endorse the "look--boobies!!!!" story about an entirely banal group photo (with an egregious.
I reiterate my opposition here.
Via Matt, an excellent summary of the record of Leslie Southwick, the latest Bush Circuit Court nominee whose primary qualification is a slavish devotion to business interests. Particularly remarkable is.
Welcome to Crazy Nino's House of Federalism! We guarantee that any characterization of facts by a state court, even if it's so tendentious or transparently false that even a conservative.
Marty Lederman points us to an interesting WaPo article, in which a few members of America's tiny minority of serious, principled "pro-lifers" have come to see that "Partial Birth" bans are silly, irrational laws whose primary purpose is to separate money from their wallets and...
The Red Sox, I suppose did the job they needed to do for themselves; they're still pretty much in command of the division. But although mitigated by Saturday's enjoyable victory--with.
Shorter Verbatim Rudy Giuliani: "[Letting Bush's upper class tax cuts expire] would be an astounding, staggering tax increase. She wants to go back to the 1990s."What a nightmare that would.