Shorter A. Scott Berg: As Woodrow Wilson shows, all Obama needs to do is sit down with Republicans and tell them to cut the bullshit. The fact that Wilson failed the one time I discuss when his agenda differed from the a priori preferences of Congress...
Calling Jeff Sessions a "wonk McCarthyite" is indeed far too charitable; the former term implies that he knows something about anything. I believe this event calls for a link to.
A terrific article by Haley Sweetland Edwards about how the passage of progressive legislation is always the beginning, rather than the end, of policy struggles. Particularly when it comes to.
On March 4, 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiff in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, deciding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applied to same-sex sexual harassment, and creating a landmark expansion of judicial oversight into the workplace. In...
On the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements, I spoke with Nate Jones of Unredacted about document classification: It's a pretty interesting diavlog; we also chatted about Able Archer, Zero Dark.
I am apparently now a CNN-worthy expert on the World Baseball Classic.
Got to give it to the Soviets, they did not mess around in showing the consequences of unsafe workplaces. Of course, like American employers blaming workers for accidents, I have little doubt that the Soviet state could have mandated safeguards on machines that would have prevented...
Greg Mitchell reviews Tom Friedman's column from 10 years ago yesterday in which the Mustache of Wisdom said, "Watching this Iraq story unfold, all I can say is this: If.
So "moronic state legislator of the day" is a cheap and easy excuse for a post, but this is a new-to-me innovation in the increasingly fantastical world of Republican Science..
It's pretty depressing to see Keith Gessen resort to one of the hoariest lines in the male chauvinist playbook. I mean, really, "how can I hate women -- I enjoy having sex with them?" In 2013? Not in the American Spectator, but made by a nominal...
Have you ever wanted to see a detailed brothel menu from 1912, with extremely graphic detail about the services provided? Well, here's your chance. This might be the most amazing.
I'd have to say that Krugman puts it perfectly: It seems that some years ago Malaysia’s ruling party took a good look at leading pundits and policy intellectuals in the.