Whenever the courts strike down a law that discriminates against a group conservatives don't like, every reactionary think and group blog must draw straws to see who gets to throw out the stale, transparently unprincipled cliches about judicial restraint. At the Heritage Foundation, the assignment apparently...
The US embargo on Cuba, a monument to futility: The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thing has remained constant: The United States’ economic.
Leo Hickman has a nice little piece of investigative journalism in the Guardian about how a right-wing climate myth gets born and spread. In short, a scientist working on whether.
The Obama Administration is producing a comprehensive planning document for national forest management. By and large, environmentalists are OK with it. Except for one major exception. One of the key environmental victories in protecting the northern spotted owl and thus the Northwest' old-growth forests was a...
This piece on the growing popularity of scotch in Latin America reminds me again of the connections between scotch and social status in the developing world. When I lived in.
As a labor historian and writer, I think a lot about why Americans lean so much more to the right than most of the rest of the European diaspora. Why.
The Ninth Circuit has ruled that PropH8 is unconstitutional. I am very concerned that this will undermine Newt Gingrich's commitment to the sacred institution of heterosexual marriage. Obviously, good news, although the news will ultimately only be as good as Tony Kennedy decides it will. Much...
Every election cycle, Democratic politicians come feasting at the union trough, using unions to raise money and coordinate get out the vote campaigns. Nobody on the Democratic side does these.
Shorter Bobo: I find the "technocrats" in the Obama administration demoralizing because they don't understand the core of any successful anti-poverty formula: unplanned pregnancies, and plenty of 'em. And don't.
As you might expect, Ross Douthat is unhappy about the backlash against the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Much of his argument consists of assertions of media bias that are difficult to respond to, since he cites no examples (let alone systematic evidence.) As...
If Karl Rove hates something, I would indeed inclined to support it if I didn't already.
Politico, or the Onion? The Republican presidential primary might be ready for another twist. Rick Santorum, the winner of the Iowa caucuses who has finished poorly in the four contests.