I have a piece in Salon about the Voting Rights Act case the supremes heard today. Also, I'm closing down my other place. I'll still report and comment on the law school mess here from time to time.
Good god. But wait, there's more. Someone make it stop. What did the British do to deserve this?
This past weekend we held the annual Patterson School Crisis Simulation. This year's topic was cyber-warfare; I have a long writeup at Information Dissemination, and a shorter writeup at the.
Over the last year Bob Woodward has refined a perfect synthesis of green lanternism ("the president could convince his partisan opponents in Congress to do anything if only he were enough of a leader to lead, thorough leadership") and tightly related centrist wankery ("the national interest...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court held that a group of journalists, lawyers, and human rights organizations did not have the standing to challenge FISA on Fourth Amendment grounds, since they could.
Same homophobia as the old one.
The other night I dreamt I was nine years old, on stage, singing "There's No Easy Way Out" for assembled parents on the last day of summer camp. It was a horrifying dream made all the worse by the fact that it was a memory. My...
In honor of Dennis Rodman's trip to North Korea, I thought a North Korean propaganda cartoon was in order. There's no subtitles, but like you really need them Among the.
Interesting: Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon’s order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973. Bork’s.
Given its namesake, Mother Jones is not exactly great on labor issues. I want to point out this problematic article by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella about AFSCME's opposition to closing an Illinois prison. The problem isn't that they are wrong to criticize AFSCME. Although it...
I think Chait gets the lay of the land right here. What matters to congressional Republicans is low taxes for the wealthy, period. They'll take cuts to spending for the.
Booo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.