It's a start: The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agency’s once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that — if approved by Congress — would end the aspect that has most alarmed privacy...
Well, this is just embarrassing: A new ad for Senator Mitch McConnell’s reelection campaign hit YouTube today, and it features one of the most egregious errors that a politician can.
Georges Méliès, The Doctor and the Monkey, 1900
...from an unaccredited for-profit college. TYRANNY!
The Texas Republic was really terrible at war. But the idea of Texas being born from military achievement is variously true and also blown out of all proportion to reality..
Before tomorrow's oral arguments,let me note again that people interested in the latest ad hoc legal challenge to the ACA should definitely look at Marty Lederman's series of posts, helpfully.
The Arizona pastor who infamously told his parishioners to pray for Obama's death doesn't want to hear a damn thing out of you ladies, so just you shut up already.
The burning of Asian forests, particularly but not exclusively in Indonesia, continues unabated. This is usually reported on for the public health aspects of it since the smoke from Sumatra.
Happy 25th Anniversary to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Those were some good times. What did biologists discover from it? That the oil industry is horrible for wildlife: Scientists had.
March is typically my busiest month, as I always have papers to furiously finish at the last minute for one, often two conferences in the US. This year is no different; I'm in Chicago doing the MPSA for a few nights in a little over a...
Twitter Fight Club has begun. Here's a helpful FAQ. My opponent in the first round is @drunkenpredator, a hilariously inebriated killer robot. Follow the "action" here. This graphic hardly understates.
This is a chilling account of the women beaten and in one case killed because the son of a celebrity was continually let off the hook, including by at least.