Andrew Cohen points us to this exhaustive study by the Columbia Human Rights Law Review about the execution of Carlos DeLuna. I will have more when I've had the chance to read the book next week, but the bottom line is that 1)the evidence against...
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Jamelle Bouie is definitive: Romney is running for president as a right-wing Republican with right-wing ideas, and it is absurd to think that he would suddenly revert to the Mitt.
Glenn Hurowitz has an important piece at Think Progress noting that Obama's decision on whether palm oil should be included in the Renewable Fuel Standard will be the most important.
Like myself, Charlie Pierce finds himself beating his head against the wall over the inaction of the Democratic National Committee in Wisconsin. Pierce not only unloads on the DNC for failing to help Tom Barrett defeat Scott Walker in the Wisconsin recall, but he makes...
Principled Tea Partier Curt Schilling: Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling asked Rhode Island for additional help to save his video game company Wednesday, prompting state leaders to consider whether.
It's totally absurd to be thinking about who the Democrats will nominate for the presidency in 2016, yet for politically-minded people, it's almost inevitable. That includes me. I've spent way.
I have some initial thoughts about Jeffrey Toobin's Citizens United piece. The key takeaway for me is that Roberts's procedural shenanigans (which don't terribly offend me in themselves) are consistent with the key substantive problems with the opinion. My somewhat idiosyncratic take on Citizens United...
On May 16, 1934, a mere week after longshoremen in San Francisco walked off the job and roiled the west coast, truckers in Minneapolis went on strike in an action.
There's been way too many great musicians dying lately. I'm sick of writing these posts.
Ah, Virginia Republicans, the party that decided after George Allen proved his racism beyond all doubt that they'd like him to run again. Now, they refuse to confirm judges based on their sexual orientation: Shortly after 1 o’clock this morning, the Virginia House of Delegates...
I remain baffled by the number of people who are convinced that the superficially moderate Romney who was governor of Massachuetts is the "real" one who's just pretending to be.
Nobody could have predicted! And the center not only did not hold, it couldn’t seem to get any attention whatsoever. Americans Elect, a lavishly funded “centrist” group that was supposed.