Along with some of the many bloggers on the masthead named "David," I will be conferencin' in Hollywood for the next couple days. Given my increasingly wonky laptop, blogging will probably be light. In the meantime, enjoy Monica Potts's brilliant article about homelessness in suburban Denver.
My latest at the Diplomat takes a look at China's approach to naval aviation: Ranging from the Colossus class carriers distributed across the world at the end of World War II,.
Jonathan Rees on how MOOCs allow egocentric professors to drive others out of business while producing lower quality education and the corporate profits that drive the whole thing. In other.
It obviously won't get as much attention as yesterday's oral argument, but as I note at the Prospect there was a major Fourth Amendment ruling yesterday. The fact that it involved marijuana generally makes one fear the worst, but since it involved a property trespass Scalia...
I don't have much to add to the consensus of Pierce, Denniston, Millhiser, Liptak and Serwer. On the merits, the case for upholding Prop 8 looked as stunningly weak as.
I had a couple of points I wanted to make in response to this. First, with respect to the narrow issue at hand, there's not a great deal to say.
I'm just a teacher of argument, not a lawyer, so I'm only going to address the merits of these arguments on their merits, not their legal standing. To begin: JUSTICE KAGAN: Mr. Cooper, could I just understand your argument. In reading the briefs, it seems as...
I am very happy to see that President Obama named five new national monuments yesterday. Two are dedicated to preserving public lands--the San Juan Islands in Washington and the Rio.
There is a bad argument for the proposition that Roe was secretly bad for abortion rights that runs something like this: abortion was going to be quickly legalized almost everywhere.
Antonin Scalia, as Antonin Scalia will be the first person to tell you, does not let his social conservatism affect his jurisprudence. It's just that the equal protection 14th Amendment concerns only racial discrimination, with particular attention to "discrimination" against white people, which is why the...
Mike Elk has a very disturbing story about Patriot Coal, a spinoff of industry giant Peabody Coal, going to bankruptcy court to divest itself of the pension and healthcare obligations.
Who to cheer for in this one... Georgia senators today passed a resolution calling for the correction of survey areas along the state’s northern border in a 48-2 vote, a.