Last night I was on Alyona, talking drones and Iran:
As Linda Greenhouse points out, Florida shouldn't be forgotten when it comes to cruel anti-immigration crackdowns.
Evidently Mexico has its own version of Rick Perry! Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto hit a book fair this weekend in what should have been an easy public relations.
Aaron Bady makes an interesting and pretty convincing argument that Occupy Oakland and the Occupy movement as a whole outside of Wall Street is best understood by grounding it in place. He argues that unlike Occupy Wall Street, Oakland and other movements around the country were...
Actually, in a way, it makes sense -- the central fantasy of both is to completely shred the federal safety net. But libertarians have apparently found a new savior who.
Sometimes I can't help but to love Facebook:
To add a bit to Scott's post citing Randy Balko, see this Eli Lake article on the effort defense firms are making to break into the domestic police market: Brad Antle, the president and CEO of Salient Federal Solutions and a former vice president of Lockheed...
For years, Crooked Timber and Bitch PhD were two of the only blogs I pretty much never missed, so I'm obviously pretty thrilled about this development. Congrats to Tedra and.
Steven Greenhouse has a thought-provoking piece in the Times detailing how and why Boeing came to a labor agreement with its workers and wondering whether this is not the beginning.
Balko is terrific on the militarization of local police forces.
I'm alternately pleased that he was finally selected and outraged he was denied the honor for which he was obviously overqualified while he was alive. As for who the next.
Chris Bertram lists the 46 races, circa 1914: African (black), Armenian, Bohemian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Cuban, Dalmatian, Dutch, East Indian, English, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Herzogovinian, Irish,.