[caption id="attachment_55742" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Above right: still the most influential Republican thinker on civil rights"][/caption] I'll have more to say about Samuel Bagenstos's brilliant essay about legal arguments against civil.
On March 4, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed the LaFollette Seamen's Act, creating standards for working conditions on boats that the U.S. would enforce on all ships stopping at American.
In her fine recent piece, Michelle Goldberg makes a point about electoral nihilism I've never seen put so well: But here’s the thing: arguments for ignoring electoral realities, for backing.
The Self-Styled Siren on Kim Novak: So let’s say — just as a hypothetical for-instance — you are an 81-year-old star whose last movie was in 1991 and who hasn’t.
The New York Times article (PDF) on Solomon Northup and his book, 12 Years a Slave, from January 20, 1853.
Shorter verbatim Tammy Bruce: "If we are able to coerce someone, via the threat of lawsuit and personal destruction, to provide a service, how is that not slavery? If we.
As I mentioned yesterday in comments, I've been thinking about the pathetic state of the New York Times columnist section lately. The Washington Post op-ed page is also terrible, but.
What that something might be the Editors do not say. Seriously, very serious people get paid to write this kind of thing: The urge to pull back — to concentrate.
