Back from Kansas City, but still running behind... this is last week's Diplomat column, on the differences between summiting in the Cold War and in the Era of Sino-American Ambivalence:.
A good bit of the left-wing criticism of President Obama partially misses the mark because it assumes a unilateral presidency where presidents can do what they want. On the other.
Anybody following American political discourse has heard many times that overruling Roe v. Wade would "return the issue to the states." Because, you know, showing the same principled commitment to.
Here's the price of a regular admission (not student) University of Michigan football ticket over time. (All figures are in 2012 dollars, rounded to the nearest dollar. I couldn't find.
Not the Onion: As the House of Representatives gears up for Tuesday’s debate on HR 1797, a bill that would outlaw virtually all abortions 20 weeks post fertilization, Rep. Michael.
This piece features more juicy tidbits on the 501(c)(3) racket known as New York University, but its real target is the Educational Administrative Complex more generally. It features a link.
An Arizona vote suppression law goes down 7-2. Scalia's majority opinion was predictably grudging, but I'll take it. I also note the disingenuousness of Alito's sudden discovery of the principle.
In 2000, the Supreme Court held (in an opinion by Stevens, joned by Scalia) that the Sixth Amendment requires that sentencing be based only on factors that have been proven.