Ari Berman with an excellent article on John Lewis and how the Supreme Court's likely overturning of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is a national repudiation of what he fought his entire life to achieve. Given the long hostility of American conservatism to civil...
I stopped watching any Sunday "news" shows long ago, but apparently it would be like I never left.
I've read a few pieces like this one, documenting the sudden spike in home prices and the rush to buy with all-cash purchases. What the linked article does less well.
A good comment on the federal disavowal of the wolf reintroduction program that brought wolves back from the brink of the extinction in the Lower 48: In Idaho, hunters and trappers killed 698 wolves in the last two seasons — more than the estimated population of...
When we left off, Catelyn was in the act of recognizing the terribleness of her moment. At 37:38 in the podcast, Steven and I argued about when the band began.
A few weeks back, I wrote about watching the goings on in the skeptic/secularist community from afar. Well, my binoculars are all fogged up again, and that's thanks to this.
I alluded to this in my first piece of the week on the NSA's data mining, but even leaving aside civil liberties concerns it's also important not to take for granted that violations of privacy do, in fact, mean increased "national security." Rachel Levinson-Waldman has a...
As I mentioned in yesterday's post on the Paterson strike pageant, I was moderating a panel of really first-rate historians on the anniversary of the strike. I am going to.
Even leaving aside the ethical issues, rarely has a book proposal without "Camille Paglia" in the author's slot seemed so unreadable: Jonah Lehrer, the disgraced writer who resigned from The.
Shorter John Yoo: No, I still can't till any difference between wiretapping in defiance of a statute and wiretapping with the authorization of a statute, because the Constitution clearly states that laws apply only at the pleasure of the president. Somewhere in the back. I note...
We probably don't need to talk too much about the content of "The Rains of Castamere," if only because I said most of what I wanted to, content-wise, in the.
The Verizon order was problematic, but the PRISM program revealed by the WaPo yesterday seems much worse than that. A key lesson, I argue, is that as often happens the.