--Maha points out that Eyal Press' intermittently interesting NYT Magazine article about his abortion provider father ends on with a clinker: his embrace of the countermobilization myth. And just to make sure he fulfilled his quota of "let's pretend that anti-choice policies are really in...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Chris Penn passed away last night.
I am on the record of being highly skeptical of Robert Casey Jr.'s claims to be a staunch progressive who happens to be extremely reactionary on women's rights, but I.
I know it's only January, but still, it seems pretty likely that Fred Barnes' new Bush hagiography will be the worst book released by a major press this year. How bad is it? It's a little too hackish for the extremely stringent standards of the...
NYU has fir..., er, "terminated the fellowships" of striking TAs. (I'm not sure why they're being terminated; after all, they're not employees, so presumably their strike cannot affect undergraduate teaching.
Digby nails the ongoing kabuki of Roe's opponents perfectly:That woman who believes that abortion is the killing of babies with knives is one slick political operator. She knows that this.
As some of you know, major news in Canada today, as the Flames win another round of the Battle of Alberta! Oh, yeah, and there was an election too, and as predicted there was a Conservative minority. As you can see from this handy interactive...
Looks like a Conservative minority--suboptimal, but I can live with if it's a majority minority....CBC (on C-SPAN now) calls a Tory minority.
I was planning to write a post ripping apart Stephen Bainbridge's latest entry in the "the underrepresentation of conservatives in academia must be due to discrimination and not self-selection, although.
Shorter Peter Morris: "They lied to me about marriage and fatherhood! Who knew that childbirth was painful (and, really, more painful for the guy--sure, the woman is in red-faced agony, but I had to look at it!)? That your child could be an...ew....girl? That raising...
It's the anniversary of Roe v. Wade today, and Jessica has put together Blog for Choice day. As a result, there have been many first-rate celebrations and eulogies for Roe..
Lord Saletan address the masses on the subject of abortion, with an op-ed predicated on a dismayingly predictable howler:If you support abortion rights, this idea may strike you as nuts..