There's not a lot I can add to Pema Levy's excellent response to William Saletan, but I did want to emphasize a couple points. First of all, Saletan does deserve credit for acknowledging pro-choice arguments about the effect of the arbitrary abortion regulations that states...
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Serwer is definitive: To the extent that "mass bloodshed" was necessary, it was because the Confederates refused to hew to the potential outcomes produced by democratic institutions, which is precisely.
I would say that I'm responding to Darleen Click's arguments about this post, except that she doesn't actually have any arguments. Does she propose a different way of restricting post-viability.
After discussing the wordiness of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead, it only makes sense to discuss its visual counterpart, by which I mean pages like this one from the third issue: (more…)
Two good games today, and a good time to reiterate that people who think that playoff football needs to be played in sterile environments in Southern suburbs are nuts. Packers.
So The Times ran an op-ed the other day about the history of anti-vaccination fears. The piece was written by Michael Willrich, a very good historian of the progressive era.
I can't really claim vindication over having predicted that the Angels' run as rulers of the AL West would end in 2010, given that I had been erroneously predicting it for years before it happened. So I was reluctant to say that it wasn't an...
Out. Not shocking in the grand scheme of things, I suppose. He provided definitive proof that liberal cable news could sell, an important accomplishment. One of his last stands didn't.
Is Lanny "I'd write op-eds calling Robert Mugabe a great democratic leader for 50 bucks" Davis the Joe Lieberman of political consultants, or is Joe Lieberman the Lanny Davis of.
Various winger blogs -- including Time's 2004 Blog of the Year -- attack Chris Christie for appointing a Muslim to the state courts. I wish this was satire.
I have some thoughts inspired by Jon Cohn's article about constitutional challenges to the ACA. The short version is that I doubt that even a scenario where the Supreme Court.
This year's Blog For Choice question: Given the anti-choice gains in the states and Congress, are you concerned about choice in 2011? The answer, of course, is "absolutely." The practical.