Tanner Colby has a strange Slate piece arguing that affirmative action doesn't work. In fairness, he's not exactly saying that it doesn't work -- "millions of people do well under affirmative action" -- but rather that it's not "an answer to economic discrimination and structural inequality."...
I had never read this 1985 Al Stump remembrance of Ty Cobb's last days. This is pretty amazing stuff. But hey, at the least the Hall of Fame is full.
Although Clarence Thomas is still only 65 -- i.e., practically a youngster by the late Politburo-style demographics of the contemporary Supreme Court -- he seems to be moving into the.
Disabled workers operate in a complicated space within American labor. Many of them are capable of productive labor that helps make their lives better. Employers probably wouldn't hire them without incentives and at least for some of them, the need for constant overseeing from case workers...
I was watching a show a few months ago featuring an author who wrote a book about talking to boys. In her book she asked boys, essentially, “What’s important about.
Yes, wingnuts are still making the "how can there be global warming if there's snow today nyuk nyuk nyuk" arguments: If you needed proof that God has a wicked sense.
Sargent's analysis is exactly right: So House Republican leaders are bowing to the inevitable and are going to allow a vote on a clean debt limit hike. In a statement moments ago, Nancy Pelosi said she’d provide Democratic votes to help it pass, which seems very...
A handy guide to the second-greatest sport at the winter Olympics.
Dead Horse Trail (originally known as White Pass Trail), Alaska, circa 1898.
In this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, I speak with Steve Saideman about the recent difficulties with the International Studies Association: We also talk at length about Steve's new book, NATO in Afghanistan: Fighting Together, Fighting Alone. Excellent book, check it out.
I have a piece noting that the "it's not that I'm a bigot, but I have to respect the desires of other bigots" argument has 1)always been used to justify.
Shorter Verbatim James Taranto: "If two drunk drivers are in a collision, one doesn't determine fault on the basis of demographic details such as each driver's sex. But when two.