The modern Republican Party: creating myths about what the Founders thought out of thin air yet actually opposing what the Founders invented while screaming tyranny. The latest example of the second part of this equation comes from the House passing a bill eliminating the census...
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Isn't that what Abu Ghraib was all about? In 1965, an effeminate student named John Lauber showed up with "bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye." “He can’t look like.
Speaking of Josh Trevino, he tries out a line that I've seen in a few places -- including some liberals who should know better: "Forgot to congratulate Barack Obama for.
I know it's shocking that conservatives would support both bullying and homophobia. In case you had forgotten this, allow me to present you with Josh Treviño's response to this story of Romney being a homophobic bully in high school. Among his tweets on it include:...
Since Mann and Ornstein have written a book that tells truths inconvenient to high Broderism, their numbers have fallen out of the Sunday talk show rolodex. Relatedly, the late Dick.
A particularly well-informed and perceptive law professor points out that many law faculty have tended to live in a kind of bubble that, for ethnographic reasons, makes it difficult for.
Andrew Cohen has an excellent tribute to the late Nicholas Katzenbach, a key Justice Department official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations for whom the term "best and brightest" wouldn't take on a pejorative connotation after the fact. A steadfast supporter of civil rights, Katenbach...
Certainly Obama took a political risk today, but Noam Scheiber succinctly sums up the bind this puts Romney in. Now, a politician with more credibility among conservatives might be willing.
Obama coming out for marriage equality today was obviously the right thing on the merits. But will it hurt him politically? I argue that 1)such claims are extremely implausible, and.
On this date in 1934, longshoremen on the West Coast walked off their jobs, beginning of the largest strikes in the history of the region and helping feed the move toward industrial unionism that transformed American labor in the 1930s. Labor relations on the docks...
It's hardly news that Douthat is an irredeemable hack, but this piece about Obama and gay marriage drove me crazy. Indeed, if you accept the framing of the debate that.
For reasons I stated earlier this week, the policy and political effects of Obama's precise stated position on same-sex marriage are relatively trivial. Still, if he's going to say something.