It's not to my credit that it took the best April. Fool's. joke. ever. to remind me, but Fred Korematsu has passed away. We should never forget that Korematsu was one of countless people whose most basic rights were taken for nothing more than their...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Chapter 121993 was one of the most remarkable in the history of the American Republic, as the increase in the top marginal tax rate sent shockwaves through American society. In.
Jonathan Chait has noted that the last two decades of the American economy could have been a demonstration designed to humiliate supply-siders. (The conservative critiques of the 1993 budget plan.
If Blogger had been showing any signs of working yesterday, I was planning to write about an even more self-paradoic than usual Steven Landsburg column and the terminal stages of Nat Hentoff's descent into wingnuttery (come back Christopher Hitchens, all is forgiven.) Fortunately, Mark Kleiman...
The David Brooks column that Matt discusses forces me to confront a more profound problem. I am, you see, a hardcore Expos fan, but between the fact that my love.
Norbizness is really onto something here. I had never thought of there being a huge dropoff after one particular season; I had always assumed that the decline in quality had.
Congratulations to occasional commenter Leo on the triumph of his Michigan State Spartans, making an upset appearance in the Final Four. Even better, in doing so performing a national service by knocking off the appalling Duke. And, for good measure, providing karmic payback for the...
Via Professor B., Brutal Women has a terrific post, commenting on a Paul Campos article. It is, in fact, quite remarkable that in the wall-to-wall coverage on the Schiavo affair,.
Steve Gilliard notes that perennial conservative vanity candidate Ralph Nader has made a "contribution" to the Schiavo debate.However, the title of the post is (unintentionally, I'm sure) misleading. As Gilliard.
The General sums up the modern GOP in one choice sentence:One of the things I like most about the Glorious Conservative Christian Cultural Revolution is that it allows us to force the poor to live the kinds of lives we claim to live ourselves. The...
Amanda Marcotte and Roy Edroso find whatever connection Peggy "Mr. Reagan would not have dismissed the story of the dolphins as Christian kitsch" Noonan had with rationality permanently severed.
With Rob and Lindsay having spoken, I suppose I should put forth my best of the 90s list. Like Rob. I don't think there's any question that the 90s were far.