Jo Becker and Scott Shane's extensive, extremely useful analysis is not entirely without flaws. There's a strange bit of Green Laternism where Becker and Shane talk about how Holder and Hillary Clinton wanted to lobby Congress but Obama shut them down -- with the implication...
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Among other things,the site Top Law Schools offers a fascinating glimpse into the psychology of prospective law students, aka 0Ls. A common affliction among 0Ls is what the more perceptive.
Eliminating eligible voters from the rolls worked out very well for Republicans in 2000. So, of course, Governor Luthor will be going back to the disenfranchisement well in 2012. All.
It's hard to imagine a more hackish book review than what Ira Stoll pulls off at Reason. Reviewing Rich Cohen's new book on the United Fruit Company (this is the first I've heard about the book although I'll probably take a look at it), Stoll...
Connecticut need not worry about Texas trying to steal its nickname. Because the Lone Star state does not care about the Constitution except for its grotesquely expansive view of the.
Ruben Navarrette suffers from the condition known as Beltwayitis. It's when pundits and politicians hang out together all the time without ever discussing anything of substance that might get in.
MSNBC's Chris Hayes sparked controversy and debate on Sunday when he said that he felt "uncomfortable" calling soldiers killed in action "heroes" because the term can be used to justify potentially unjust wars. He later apologized for the statement. (See apology below.) Hayes spent a...
Chris Christie edition. To elaborate on another of Krugman's points, Chait's recent Paul Ryan piece is good on Ryan's use of a non-existent concern about "deficits" [during Democratic administrations only].
[Any useful discussion of a television episode will contain "spoilers."] Zoller Seitz's entire analysis is brilliant, starting from the top: Q: What's in Mad Men's rearview mirror? A: Every other.
A good day to remember the sacrifice of Union soldiers in the crushing of pro-slavery Confederate treason. Also, see McMurtry: And yes, I know I am embedding songs by a Alabaman and a Texan in saying this. Complication and contradiction is the essence of America.
Dinner has been finished, appropriate family birthday phone calls have been made, a great and appropriate cocktail has been fixed. We hit the recorded program list a little after 10,.
This community's most prominent Gush-Borite and Roman Polanski apologist asserts in comments that the DNC is so flush with cash that its alleged failure to support the Barrett campaign must.