I have a column for the Prospect arguing that Scalia's evaluation of the discrimination claims in Wal-Mart v. Dukes is part of a long-running conservative con: The problem with ignoring statistical evidence is that doing so produces far too many false negatives: Even in historical...
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Embarrassing. However, at least Douthat is honest here. Anti-abortion crusaders are rarely about the children and often about the encasing of women into idealized and repressive gender roles. Everyone loves.
Plumer is right here.
Shorter Verbatim William C. Duncan: "What remains to be seen now is whether the people of New York will look kindly on the legislators who ignored them, listening instead to the Hollywood stars and other glitterati who became lobbyists for this fashionable cause." The thing...
Looks like the vote will finally pass. Outstanding! At lease one member has unexpectedly switched to a "yes"; once the logjam has been broken you'd think some GOP members would.
No one will believe me, of course, but just this morning I was thinking, "I wonder what's new in the world of cocaine." Okay then:Cocaine cut with the veterinary drug.
Good for them, and especially for the 70 Democrats who refused to issue an ex post facto rubber stamp for the executive branch's latest exercise in foreign policy adventurism. Update: After a classified briefing, almost all Democrats and some Republicans agree to continue funding. My...
Sadly, it's not like anybody else's arguments against SSM are much better.
This would be funny if the results weren't so tragic: The Greeks have already reduced their deficit by five percentage points of the gross domestic product, “unprecedented cuts in a.
Finally captured. Two related recommendations: Black Mass is as gripping an airline read as you could ask for. Brotherhood, the fictionalized, transplanted-to-Rhode Island Showtime series based on the Bulger case, is an extremely underrated show; I'd rank it easily among the top 10 from TV's...
Great column from Coates. After bringing much-needed national attention to Rick Perry's role in the murder of Cameron Tood Willingham, the punchline says it all: Whatever one thinks of the.
Jon Stewart's comment that Chris Wallace was doing precisely that when he talked about Fox presenting a "counterweight" to NBC and the Times is a convenient way to describe assertions.