Month: March 2015

Jonathan Chait is uncomfortable with the tone of progressive mockery. "You signed up for your employer-sponsored health insurance" is a pretty weak gotcha to throw at Ted Cruz. — Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait)...

This actually hurt my brain: In an interview on Tuesday with the Texas Tribune, the newly-minted presidential candidate [Senator Ted Cruz] compared himself to the Galileo when discussing, of all things, whether climate change...

(One in a series of posts on George Fredrickson’s 2002 book, Racism: A Short History.) How is it, Fredrickson asks, that “pre-Darwinian scientific racism flowered in France and the United States” (p....

Now this story I’m about to unfold took place back in the early nineties–just about the time of our conflict with Saddam and the Iraqis. I only mention it ’cause sometimes there’s a man–I...

As a lawyer you quickly learn that the terms “justice” and the “American legal system” are not synonymous. Far from it. In far too many respects, our so-called “Justice System” deals primarily...