The best insight I’ve seen into what happened yesterday at the Supreme Court’s hearing about same-sex marriage comes from Slate’s terrific judicial correspondent, Dahlia Lithwick. She sums up the most important points in this video: If you’d like to listen to the actual hearing, with the back-and-forth between the justices and the attorneys for each […]
If you ever wonder how the sleazy underbelly of congressional lobbying operates, read this piece about the congressman who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and is sleeping with a woman who lobbies on behalf of the airline industry. Whatever her clients want, he turns into law — let the consumers be damned! — […]
Last Tuesday was Election Day in St. Louis, and — with the exception of Ferguson, where two African-Americans were elected to the city council, giving it a racial balance of three blacks and three whites — no one really cared. I count myself among them. Frankly, I didn’t even know it was Election Day because […]
Missi Pyle as a Hillary spokeswoman answering questions from the press corps. Wait for it…
Four years ago, I wrote a piece called The Job Creation Myth, in which I explained that jobs are not created by reducing taxes on the wealthy, that “trickle-down economics” has been repeatedly debunked, and that increasing the minimum wage and raising taxes on the one-percenters would not cause more people to be laid off. […]
Andrew Sullivan is about as close as we get to a public intellectual in the United States. Although I don’t agree with him on all issues, I still absorbed as much of his writing as I could while he published The Dish. He gave up that online publication a few months ago because the workload […]