Another reminder that Breitbart is essentially never right about anything, and a high percentage of his reprehensible smear jobs involve race-baiting.
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It's early in the day, but Matt Yglesias has a good one: Right now we have conservatives simultaneously calling for huge spending cuts and also getting the [lion's] share of.
Jay Rosen has been making some fun of cyber-pragmatists, whose reminders that we know little about the link between social media and democratization movements apparently constitute a "genre" in which:.
I will have some further commerce clause thoughts either today or tomorrow. Until then, I note that for some reason the failure of this not-at-all-cheesy historical reenactment of Gibbons v. Ogden is not seen as one of the most unjust exclusions in the history of...
Remember that alleged interest in democracy that so many American hawks developed as a pretext after the initial justification for the Iraq War held up like a balsa-wood drone in.
I have an article up at the Prospect on the hot new trend in arguments that policies that Republicans supported until Obama started supporting them represent a massive threat to.
Alas, Jethro Tull Darcy and the Secret Society were robbed. Still, it's heartening that even an awards organization so relentlessly committed to mediocrity in the winners of its major awards can stumble over something good. I've always liked Arcade Fire, but while I can understand...
There seems to be some confusion in comments here about what "putting women on a pedestal" in the pejorative sense means. This, for instance, isn't that. For an actual example,.
Edroso has a good list. Michele Bachmann's recent assertion that the framers who agreed to a Constitution that explicitly and implicitly protected slavery and were long dead before slavery was.
This is academic inside baseball, but since that's obviously a disproportionate percentage of our audience, I'd thought I'd give some publicity to the issue here. The political science journal Gender and Politics has apparently decided to reject without external review any manuscript dealing with research...
This Bob Herbert column makes a number of points that seem, to anyone ever-so slightly to the left of, say, Barack Obama, unexceptionable to the point of banality. That's not.
"Sarah Palin Hires Political Advisor". You mean she didn't already have one? No way. I've applied for a few jobs over the past five months, and . . . well.