The odds that I will agree with David Bernstein over Dahlia Lithwick are...not good, but in this case Bernstein is right. I've been trying to condense the paper I presented at WPSA earlier this year into blog format (very short version: the United States doesn't...
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Krugman makes a good case. And, yes, the idea that the "messaging" from someone no non-professional pays any attention to is more important than their ability to do the job.
Jon Chait points out that for a generation now GOP proposals for Doing Something About Big Government have followed a predictable not to say neurotic pattern: Republicans keep running on.
"Comedian" Tim Slagle wrote a post slagging Morrissey for calling the Chinese a "subspecies" for "their" treatment of animals. I'm with Slagle on the condemnation, though I'm not as surprised as he seems to be that Morrissey would say or write something controversial. It's not...
I think an ad campaign like this is just what the United Nations needs to get the US to pay its dues. Or to fulfill pledges to fund the Millennium.
It never ends.
In convenient video form: Hyde: The Status Quo Is Not OK from Center for Reproductive Rights on Vimeo.
Joshua Busby has a new book out on transnational campaigns that might be the best new contribution to the advocacy networks literature since Keck and Sikkink's original Activists Beyond Borders..
Adam Cohen notes Antonin Scalia once again asserting that the Constitution does not protect gender equality. His reasoning is superficially "originalist": Indeed, Justice Scalia likes to present his views as.
I strongly recommend Dahlia Lithwick's article on the pending execution of Teresa Lewis, which covers some of the same issues of paternalism and the law I alluded to yesterday. I don't believe that Lewis should be executed -- but that's because I oppose the death...
It's hard to argue against the proposition that Peretz benefits from one.
Starhawk: Had O'Donnell really 'dabbled' in Witchcraft, she might have learned that the Craft, as we call it, or Wicca as some prefer, is a remnant of the pre-Christian indigenous.