Melissa Gira Grant's new book is causing all sorts of discomfort among liberals who are just flat not comfortable with thinking of sex work as labor. Katha Pollitt's latest piece is an excellent example of this. Unfortunately, while Pollitt is writing in the language of second-wave...
Bouie has been killing it at his new gig, and this is no exception: Voting rights advocates have attacked these laws as blatant attempts to suppress the votes of low-income.
...but in response to New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy taking three days off to attend the birth of his first child, WFAN radio host and former NFL quarterback.
My thought on the McCutcheon case's importance is as follows. Liberals need to quit whining about the money. I'm not saying the case isn't a big deal. It is. But I am saying that the plutocrats have always had far more money than working people and...
James Taranto is nothing if not incredibly handsome and a stickler for principled consistency...so I'm sure he'll agree that when people stand in long lines to buy things they want.
This revelation would've blown my mind back in 1992, but as it stands, I'm just glad I got to totally nerd-out on a former president.
It's not Obama's fault that we don't have immigration reform. That is the fault of the white supremacist Republican Party. There's really nothing Obama could have done to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Obama however has tremendous discretion over how to enforce immigration laws and his aggressive...
Given how embarrassing attempts to create plausible counterfactual scenarios under which a significantly better health care bill was possible in 2010 tend to be ("threaten to primary senators who aren't.
Well, this explains it. Almost a year after announcing their split in a stilted scene at the Grand Kremlin Palace, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila have finalized.
As Richard Sherman points out, football players who grew up in the ghetto like himself and his former kids baseball teammate DeSean Jackson are treated quite differently than white players when it comes to their behavior and friends: This offseason they re-signed a player who was...
I have further thoughts about McCutcheon: As Ari Berman of The Nation points out, there is a particularly cruel irony about the Roberts Court's attack on campaign finance reform in.
I can't recommend this Stephen Bezruchka essay on structural inequality and infant mortality strongly enough. Just a quick excerpt: Everyone in a society gains when children grow up to be.