Time to rethink the implicit secrecy bargain.

Pat Buchanan really is racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic, but he’s a member of the right tribe, so it’s OK.

The shrink-ray theft scene in Despicable Me was racist, but the minions seemed to me to be unionized, genetically altered corn pops and not really racialized. What does it say that supervillains allow their employees to bargain collectively but Republicans won’t?

The Obama administration is appealing al Kidd v. Ashcroft.

Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also blogs at Jack and Jill Politics and has written for The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Root, and the Daily News. Follow @adamserwer