All, We've now completed a week-long comment registration trial. This post should serve as an open thread for how this week has gone. Note that I'm still processing a few password requests, so if you can't register (and note that Wordpress registration is different than LGM...
Another domino falls.
The fundamentals in 2016 are unbelievably in favor of a Hillary blowout. Obviously things can change of course.
Where does the fault lie for the problems between Israel and Palestine? As John Judis correctly points out, it lies heavily with Israel. In part: Israel is one of the world’s last colonial powers, and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are its unruly...
It's entirely possible that in 100 years, historians will look back on the early 21st century United States and remark not only on the racist prison system that shows how.
"This blog post made me look ridiculous! And a Chief Justice of the United States cannot afford to be made to look ridiculous!" Not that I can blame Halbig defenders.
For the plutocrats, the real outrage is that income inequality hasn't grown by more. Give it another 5 years: Economic inequality in the United States has been receiving a lot of attention. But it’s not merely an issue of the rich getting richer. The typical American...
I was unaware that Stanley Kubrick had made a documentary about the Seafarers International Union in 1953. I have not seen it, but it is now available here, although I.
Sarah Palin should win the Nobel Prize for Grifting.
For this week's listicle, I bring the Jeter: “Overrated” is a challenging concept. In sports, a player can be “great” and “overrated” at the same time. Future Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Derek Jeter, for example, is quite clearly a “great” player, well deserving of...
Shorter Ann Althouse: We must maintain a horribly costly, arbitrary, racially discriminatory drug prohibition regime...for the children!!!!!! And...science!!! If the case of tobacco has proven anything, there is no way.
There were many annoying things about the news media’s recent re-discovery of the new conservative intellectuals – among them, the argument from Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry and his ilk that the reformicons.