John Cole, an anti-death penalty ("I dislike the death penalty because it is irreversible, it is arbitrary, it is seemingly enforced in a haphazard manner, it seems to be more about race and class than guilt, it does not seem to prevent crime, and because...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Good one today.
I'm not sure quite what to make of the Supreme Court granting cert appeal in the Texas gerrymandering case. To provide the background, the Supreme Court in 2004 issued Vieth.
As always, I was intensely irritated by Matt Bai's review of Pierson and Hacker's fine new book. While such events as the failure of Bush's social security initiative do indeed raise serious questions about the limitations of the thesis, and there are certainly other things...
Jewelry symbolizing the beautiful moment when a father hands his obsessive control of his daughter's sexuality over to her husband! Which you can get by giving ten grand to Randall.
I decided to turn on the 1 o'clock game while I was doing some writing, only to discover that the only game showing was the monumental Jets/Raiders thriller. With my.
I think it's easy for people of my generation to underrate him because of his generally dreary feature film career, but Richard Pryor was a genius comedian, one of the very greatest. I've been listening to his collection of comedy recordings--mostly from his peak in...
Apparently sick of having to have politicial appointees overrule professional lawyers, the Bush administration has decided to just skip the middleman:The Justice Department has barred staff attorneys from offering recommendations.
Peter Schuck's NYT op-ed starts with a defensible premise, but reaches a conclusion I couldn't disagree with more strongly. It should be said at the outset that I'm inclined to.
Like Shakes' Sis and Lindsay, I think this Nancy Goldtsein article is excellent. I definitely agree that abortion politics need to be seen as a part of a broader project of reproductive autonomy, with particular attention made to the needs of women who often lack...
Shorter Chris "Guilt-By-Overlapping-Opinion-About-the-Merits-of-the-War" Snitchens: the fact that Ramsey Clark is a crackpot proves that "the antiwar faction has subordinated everything to its hatred of Bush." (An auspicious debut for his.
Many people pointed out that Ohio's gay-bashing constitutional amendment would raise potentially serious constitutional problems because it was so overbroad. In breaking news the Ohio courts have struck down the.