Matt Yglesias disagrees with my call for increased radicalization among labor in kind of a weird way. He argues that the modern economy has treated working-class people well, using increased rates of consumption as a measurement, and notes: “Workers of the world unite, you have...
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Apparently actual Republicans haven't gotten his memo about what they believe. It's all too appropriate that media members seemed to outnumber actual supporters at his announcement...
Report: 10,000 Troops Leaving Afghanistan This Year Kerry and McCain United Behind the Mysteriously Urgent Libya Mission Iraq Violence Intensifies as Talks Continue on U.S. Troop Presence In principle it.
As Ackerman says, the ongoing attacks against Libya cannot seriously be squared with the requirements of the War Powers Act, and the procedure used to justify violating the law is a dangerous one.
Lithwick's article about Wal-Mart v. Dukes should be read in its entirety, but the most important passage identifies the key part of Scalia's majority opinion: The law allows such "pattern.
As I expressed last week when thinking about the Huffington Post boycott and its broader implications for the blogosphere, I noted that we are long past the time when the.
The Supreme Court has handed down its ruling in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, a case I've discussed earlier. The Court unanimously held that the suit should not proceed. There are, however, major differences in the reasoning that matter going forward. Every member of the Court agreed...
I will say this for Hitch; when he gets something in his wheelhouse, he can still nail it. The most salient thing about profiles of Mamet's "courageous" conversion to wingnuttery.
Becker does seem to forget this from time to time.
Has just been written by another twenty telepathic men. A question that interests me is, how many of the 21 GOP representatives who signed this letter actually have doubts about the constitutionality of bills signed by a presidential auto pen? As a legal matter, the...
It's nice to have constants you can count on in this ever-changing world, and Matt Bai's political analysis being wrong is hence reassuring. Seriously, Huntsman? Care to make it interesting?
I've essentially become resigned to executive branch domination of foreign policy -- the only thing that can stop it is for Congress to actually assert its prerogatives, and there's no.