In response to this excellent Paul Waldman article, Yglesias cuts to the heart of the matter:I'll beat that. What's really, really remarkable is the source of Iowa's growing significance -- arbitrary diktat from the media. If campaign reporters covered Iowa in a manner proportionate to...
Author: Scott Lemieux
It's been widely linked, but this is a must-read story:The debate over how terrorism suspects should be held and questioned began shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the.
This online database of papers from the Blackmun files looks like an immensely valuable resources for scholars and watchers of the Court.
If I had have enough reason to hope that the Cubs lose, it's the fact that many Cubs fans seem to still hold a grudge against against Steve Bartman, whose role in the defeat of the Cubs was trivial at best. First of all, it's...
Ah, what an interesting year this figures to be. Dammit, why can't the Mets let me know if I won the playoff ticket lottery? I'm rarin' to go!Wait, what?PHILLIES v..
Obviously, this is only going to last as long as it takes the Supreme Court to give the green light again, or for the state to find a new lethal.
James Dolan and Isiah Thomas.
Most of this lament for the polarization of the Roberts Court I addressed in a TAP article recently. The short version is that 1)Roberts will certainly fail in his attempt.
It gets worse and worse:Zimbabwe's bakeries have shut and supermarkets have warned there will be no bread for the foreseeable future as the government admitted that wheat production had collapsed.
The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal seeking to nullify a New York law, upheld by state courts, that requires Catholic Charities to provide contraception to women as part of health coverage requirements. I think this point is especially important, and often distorted when...
Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich. Nice to see that we're in for more than a year of vapid and sometimes sexist attacks on Clinton from ostensible liberals on an ostensibly.
Pundit Rule #1: Blame Must Always Be Equally Apportioned Among the Parties Irrespective of the Facts
Shorter David Ignatius: The fact that the Bush administration reneged on a deal brokered between the director of national intelligence and Democrats in Congress proves that Democrats are unwilling to.