Ed Kilgore on the Arizona anti-LGBT law and how the “religious liberty” crusade shows signs of backfiring.
Also-ran in GOP primary for U.S. Senate says ranchers should be allowed to shoot on sight “wetbacks” crossing the border illegally.
The backlash in Arizona over the anti-LGBT bill sitting on Jan Brewer’s desk has fully formed this week, with both of the state’s Republican U.S. senators urging her to veto it and the state’s business community coming out en masse against the bill. Fascinating stuff.
Nope. Russian Roulette as a gun safety lesson to prove you know the gun isn’t loaded just is not a good idea.
Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich met Friday with federal prosecutors to discuss the Bridge scandal.
A very, very good point about the public role of academics and the role of college and university instruction from TPM Reader JS (in response to this earlier post)…
One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about your blog is your historian’s perspective – I’m one too! But I think this discussion of academics’ supposed lack of engagement with broader national debates overlooks something critical: the classroom as a public space for engagement in the national conversation.
Republicans now considering shutting down state governments over Obamacare.
TPM Reader JG responds to my post on leaving academic life …
Reading your blog on academic life was so touching and resonant. It really encapsulates so much of what I went through in graduate school and I imagine so many other people have gone through.
This trial could make Mississippi the first Abortion-free state in the country.
That and other fun on tap in next year’s (possible) McConnell-led Senate.