Powerful and important reporting from Elise Foley: On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of a crime, some of whom will not be charged with one, according to information The Huffington...
Outside of the larger spectre of climate change, the biggest environmental crisis in the United States is the melting of southern Louisiana into the ocean.* A combination of diking the.
Evidently, Bijan's sophisticated empirical analysis in a dying thread merits front-page coverage. Although I certainly hope that in keeping with the tenets of Paul-curiosity reproductive freedom and other such trivialities.
Let's just say that I'm not optimistic that Posnanski's Paterno book will be what it should be.
Looks like the Republican Party has another state politician sure to appeal to the wingunttia masses. This time it's in North Carolina, where state Rep. Larry Pittman is calling for.
The Jane Addams Hull House Association is closing today. This is depressing for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is the loss of a connection to one.
Email from a reader (published with permission of the author): This email will seem to you like the least surprising thing in the world, which makes it ever more tragic. (more…)
I love Jon Chait's Mitt Romney/Ace Rothstein analogy. The problem for the conservative base is that their competing suitors can't even rise to the level of a card shark, a.
Of course he was fully aware of and approved of the content of his racist newsletters: But people close to Paul’s operations said he was deeply involved in the company.
I'm not saying that any of you didn't already understand the deep-seated racism in Tea Party members. But if you needed any additional evidence, please see the legislative goals of the Tennessee Tea Party, which includes outrage over history classes teaching that the Founding Fathers owned...
Appropriate given Wolf Blitzer's increasingly embarrassing existence on CNN, watch him score what might be the lowest score ever on Celebrity Jeopardy. Also, Andy Richter is a beast. Not that.
Cynthia Nixon's recent comments are very wise: Regarding her late-in-life sexual orientation switch, the “Sex and the City” star said: I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a.