Affirmative action in the form of legacy admissions doesn’t make anyone angry.

Dave Weigel on life in the gray zone.

I don’t know that I buy Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan.

Happy to see Sara Mayeux blogging at Ta-Nehisi‘s.

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