Ta-Nehisi Coates's essay, "Fear of a Black President," is probably the best essay on this country I've read in 2012. It's hard to even know what to excerpt here. Of many excellent passages, I'll go with this one: What we are now witnessing is not...
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Woodrow Wilson's reputation has been torn to shreds in the last ten years. This can go a bit too far; in the end, regardless of his motives, Wilson did sign.
Jack Cashill's annoyed that Media Matters for America (MMFA) "intimidate[d] editors into not assigning Deconstructing Obama for review." His evidence? To date, even though my thesis is widely accepted on.
Rebecca Traister has a terrific piece about counterfactuals and the 2008 primary. Amanda has some comments as well. Traister does a good job of outlining the where there may have differences -- Obama's coatails (which were likely decisive in the Hagan and Franken Senate races)...
Barack Obama is a Somali pirate. See also.
You might think it's laziness, but actually it's science. And as for the otherwise even-more-irrelevant response, all you can say is that Paul Ryan is a complete fraud.
I heard a soundbite from UC-Irvine law dean Erwin Chemerinksy this morning about Kagan, in which he speculated that Kagan's warmth and personal charm would endear her to senators during the confirmation process. I've never met Kagan but I wouldn't be surprised if she could...
If Rahm Emanuel is actually deciding what sort of trial KSM et. al. should get on the basis of what he calculates would be most politically convenient for the Obama.
Thoughts on Obama getting uppity with the SCOTUS.
Last night, I diavlogged with Matt Duss on the subject of the Obama speech:As this suggests, I'm pretty ambivalent about the escalation.
Mr. Trend mounts a defense:And while you can and should argue that in many ways, Obama's policies reflect a return to Bill Clinton's, I don't think that holds in the.
Say what now?In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy.