In late 2003, the Colorado Supreme Court struck down the partisan redistricting passed by the Republican legislature, as this redistricting plainly violated the state constitution's mandate that redistricting be performed only once per decade. This case--a state court interpreting the state constitution--did not raise the...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Jesse Taylor on Christopher Snitchens: Chris Hitchens isn't a useful idiot - he's a useful asshole. He fills a slightly brainier niche than Dennis Miller does, although he's featured the same.
One strange thing about Stoller's argument about centrist bloggers is that it strikes me as no longer true. Drum, Yglesias, and Marshall have all become much more aggressive and partisan.
Needless to say, Michael Massing's NYRB response to the New York Times's pre-war "journalism" is a (depressing) must-read. It's doubly depressing that this opinion wouldn't be written today--not only because there's no Black on the Court, but because our establishment papers censor themselves so well: In the First Amendment...
A friend once noted that the most unnecessary liner note in history was Lou Reed writing on The Blue Mask that "my guitar is on the right stereo channel." The one on.
Roger Ailes has a great post about Andrew Sullivan declaring that he no longer supports the GOP, because they have the same position on gay rights that they've always had. If.
Now that there's a fairly broad consensus that The Phantom Menace was godawful, it's often forgotten how well the movie was initially received not only by many fans but by much of the media as well. The likes of Roger Ebert gave the movie good reviews...
To me, the question of nuclear power, as with conscription, becomes easier when removed from the abstract level to the context of American politics. Discussing the merits of nuclear power.
When a baseball game is interrupted so that Fred Barnes can spout wingnut propaganda at interminable length, the terrorists have already won.
According to Prof. Reynolds: WHILE I WENT OUT TO GET FROZEN YOGURT, the InstaWife watched CBS news. She pronounced it "one long commercial for the Democrats." Needless to say, no examples of this supposed egregious bias were proffered. And since the InstaWife feels that whether the...
Alessandra Stanley has an odd piece in the New York Times about the recent spate of "women behaving badly" shows, which she claims are demeaning to women. I haven't seen the.
Among Katha Pollitt's many enviable talents is the ability to cut to the heart of an issue by saying something that by all rights should be banal, but is often.