Dan Yoder is leaving Facebook, and implores us to "join him." He has almost a dozen reasons why. Some of them are even good reasons. He's not alone. And more and more of us, disenchanted, disenfranchised Facebookers know it. But here's the rub, Dan. A...
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Ernie Harwell, R.I.P.
This is according to a new policy brief out from the Belfer Center at Harvard, in which Monica Duffy Toft details a study of 137 civil wars fought from 1940-2007. Toft finds that more civil wars are ending in negotiation these days than in stalemate...
Did John McCain strenuously object when Scott Roeder was read his Miranda rights? If not, I wonder what criteria McCain is using to determine which American terrorists are entitled to.
Apparently having run out of human beings, the Philadelphia Inquirer has given a column to John Yoo. And, if you're a glass-one-twelfth-full kind of person, you could acknowledge that it's.
As part of her excellent take on the racist email send by a student at Harvard Law School, Jill identifies another excellent example of Sarah Palin's theory of free speech, i.e. that the First Amendment means that your arguments can't be criticized. In this case,...
Shorter Roman Polanski: The only way to obtain justice for the woman I raped when she was a 13-year-old is to let me off for pleading guilty and then fleeing.
Things we can be grateful for as this beautiful Sunday comes to a close: 1) Maternal mortality has declined sharply worldwide, and guinea worm may soon go the way of.
Since we haven't checked in for a bit, a quick progress report on the Kaus Kampaign. Apparently, it has entailed: --Going public with the large number of California Democratic primary voters who listen to the early-morning talk show apparently hosted by the nation's foremost moral...
Even granting that the latter was also a half-governor and worst full-campaign VP candidate in history, I think this is a good question. Of course, if Time is measuring influence.
In stark contrast to other current and former law professors whose names have been floated recently as SCOTUS candidates, such as Pam Karlan, Harold Koh, and Diane Wood, Elena Kagan.