Good news from Florida, which, scarily, may again be the deciding factor in the upcoming election. I confess that when I hear that Nader has suffered a setback or failed to make a state ballot, I celebrate first and investigate the particulars later. The potential...
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Matthew Yglesias makes a crucial point that isn't made often enough: In other words, a second Bush term will not merely continue down the current unsustainable course -- it will.
For me, one of the most difficult political questions is the ethics of outing for political purposes. It presents a conflict between two important principles: 1)the the profound injustice of.
I'm sure our regular readers (if any) were looking forward to receiving the kind of in-depth, Geertzian interpretive analysis that only a long-time New York resident of two weeks could provide. With the exception of the pro-choice rally on Saturday, however, I basically avoided the...
I must argue that my colleague, as well as the increasingly shrill Andrew Sullivan, have reached the right conclusion about the proposed constitutional amendments in the GOP platform for the wrong.
Hopefully you've been reading Balkanization, which has added commentary from two of the best constitutional scholars currently writing--Mark Graber and Mark Tushnet--to already excellent blog. (I wish they would come on.
If there is one thing I've gotten sick of in the last four years, it's having to pick my jaw up off the floor every so often, after it fall there in response to my lack of ability to prepare myself for the level of...
The letter Economist editor Clive Crook wrote to Brad DeLong makes use of a ploy that, while a familiar tactic of wingnut hacks, is particularly dismaying coming from an intelligent conservative: He.
Lindsay Beyerstein draws our attention to a truly dismaying attempt to Johnny Cash as a symbol for Republican politics. Appalling. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten.
The decline in affirmative action over the last several years should be a major cause for concern for anyone interested in social justice. We often hear from rightwingers how affirmative action is actually reverse racism against qualified whites, something that many white men and even...
I use this space to vent about the various pathologies of the New York Times pretty regularly, but I'll say this for that particular: in the post-Janet "Titanic is the movie.
When I was in Montreal on Wednesday, two justices were appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court. Media coverage has focused on the fact that 1)the Canadian court now has an apparently.