Not only does reasonable moderate Sam Alito show us that there is no difference between the two parties and elections don't matter and therefore because of Edward Snowden we should all vote for Gary Johnson or whoever the Green Party spits up in 2016, but he's...
I knew it was over when the Bruins brought Bob Stanley in to play goal. I don't dislike the Bruins generally, but given that Jacobs was a driving force behind.
The labor historian Jefferson Cowie on why the government desperately needs to recommit to and strengthen the Fair Labor Standards Act: It’s true that we are in the middle of.
What a wonderful image of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense force in action! Note the sinking PLAN carrier Liaoning in the background. Obviously there's been some sort of dreadful accident-- apparently near the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands-- and the Hyuga is rendering desperately needed assistance to the Chinese...
The season finale of Mad Men, "In Care Of," contains an inordinate number of what I call "Oh Really?" reverse shots. They typically don't involve dialogue -- and the episode.
It doesn't really surprise me that the big whiskey corporations are doing such a good job of pivoting to the demand for higher quality hooch.* They have the preexisting capital.
The Voting Rights Act might be the main course, but the Civil Rights Act is the appetizer. I alluded to this in the article, but it's worth repeating Ginsburg's examples of what, according to the definition announced today by reasonable, moderate, thinking person's reactionary Sam Alito,...
In light of the fact of his concurrence today arguing that affirmative action is the precise constitutional equivalent of Jim Crow, Clarence Thomas has done the only possible honorable thing.
There's a certain class of conservatives that love to blame postmodernism for everything. One of them is David Brooks, who blames it for the decline in the humanities: The humanist’s.
This comment deserves promotion: Wider access to information within the intel community is a direct result of recommendations from the 9/11 Commission to prevent the stove-piping of data. Previous leaks have already resulted in intel being held closer to those with a need-to-know. For example, State...
This is a guest post from Colin Snider of Americas South and North. As many by now know, the last 10 days have seen an incredible degree of social mobilization.
This is a great overview of attempts to suppress the Native American vote after they received full citizenship rights in 1924. In short, they were treated by western states not.