Adam Serwer

This remix of the New York gubernatorial debate, featuring The Rent Is Too Damn High Party nominee Jimmy McMillan, is pretty great:

Yesterday I wrote about how Obama could be facing his own version of Proposition 8 if he fails to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” while defending it in court. Like Gabe, my personal feeling is that he shouldn’t be defending it. That said, unlike DADT itself, the argument over whether the administration is obligated to […]

Rachel Slajda highlights the latest from the fight over a proposed Islamic community center in Murfreesboro. This is what the lawyer for the plaintiffs who are trying to block the project by arguing that Islam isn’t a religion, Joe Brandon Jr., had to say: Brandon argued that the Islamic Center is not entitled to religious […]

Will Wilkson‘s response to Paul Waldman‘s post about the above Gallup poll and how Republicans are wrong to be “gripped by a belief that government is dangerously out of control and that it’s threatening our freedom” is interesting: Mr Waldman is right to suggest that today’s Republican alarm and Democratic light-heartedness are partisan phenomena. But […]

White House rejects judicial nominee for waging war on Christmas. What Will Wilkinson said. Coates on poverty and culture. This is just weird.

Remember when the existence of an Islamic studies program at Harvard Law that included instruction in Sharia-compliant finance was touted as evidence that Justice Elena Kagan would support the imposition of Taliban-style Islamic law in the United States? Well we’ve got another stealth jihad co-conspirator in the mix — Pope Benedict XVI: The Vatican has […]

A while ago, I wrote that Arizona could write a superficially “colorblind” bill targeting Latinos because everyone has an idea in their head of what an “illegal immigrant” looks like. Elise Foley writes that some Republican legislators in Florida are simply dispensing with the pretense, writing an immigration bill that essentially exempts white people. Don’t […]

Virginia’s fourth-grade history textbooks repeat one of the dumbest myths of the Lost Causers, that “thousands of African Americans fought for the South during the Civil War.” This claim is obviously central to historical revisionists’ efforts to erase the idea that the Confederacy was founded on an ideal of white supremacy: The Sons of Confederate […]

Ryan J. Reilly reports that the Department of Justice is looking into voter-intimidation allegations in Harris County, Texas, after a Tea Party group announced an anti-voter fraud effort there. The county includes the city of Houston, and there’s no way Republicans would simply stand by while Democratic-leaning voters go to the polls without having their […]

This is the kind of paragraph you get into journalism to write: Mr. McMillan declined to show the apartment, saying he feared for his neighbors’ safety, and fielded questions from the driver’s seat of his parked graphite-colored Honda CR-V, which is also his mobile office. When he travels, he sleeps in it, too; in the […]