I'm not sure why there's been an uptick on violence against Sikhs -- tensions with Iran? Syria? I don't know -- but I'm noticing it more and more, and I don't think I'm suffering from confirmation bias. So, for example, today a judge in Mississippi...
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These two posts by Rebecca Watson made me chuckle because A.) they were biting and funny and B.) because they reminded me of my experience posting under this old Amanda.
Mark Tushnet's typically excellent new book about the Roberts Court represents an epochal historical moment -- I believe it's the first time this blog has been cited in book form.
This post is part of a series. The first post is here.. A third post is here. Background information here. I got a particularly glossy and garish bit of law porn in my mailbox yesterday, from American University's Washington College of Law. It highlighted the...
Buying a new car in 2014? Check out the United Auto Workers list of union-made vehicles before you buy (PDF, see here if you don't to link straight to it..
Once again, humans are a disaster for almost every other species on the planet.
David Gilmour, a professor at University of Toronto, said this: “I’m not interested in teaching books by women. Virginia Woolf is the only writer that interests me as a woman writer, so I do teach one of her short stories. But once again, when I...
Even good, respectable Yankee-hating people have to admire Mariano Rivera, and the Yankees really know how to do this stuff right. (I loved Metallica playing him live into the Sunday.
Not only does Megan McArdle not understand how agricultural subsidies work, she creates a myth about giving money to people for working being better than giving money to people for.
If these crazy demands in exchange for raising the debt ceiling briefly are indicative, among the Republican demands we can probably expect in the near future in exchange for not destroying the world are the abolition of the Democratic Party, the repeal of the Civil...
1. More on climate change destroying the ocean ecosystem and the rise of jellyfish as our new overlords. 2. Support for fracking declines in the United States. This is useful.
Only the greatest nation in the world could have an infrastructure system this modern and reliable.