Adam Serwer

Daniel Strauss makes a point that can’t be repeated enough regarding voter fraud: A few years ago the Brennan Center for Justice, at New York University, undertook an exhaustive analysis of voter fraud allegations — everything from reports that people were voting twice to stories of dead people casting ballots. The vast majority of allegations […]

I think Dave Weigel, or the Democrats he’s talking to, is really missing the point of the controversy over the Chamber of Commerce’s political activities here: 1) Voters hate watching these ads. Yes, negative ads work. But voters, of their own volition, have expressed confusion and anger about negative ads at events for Democrats and […]

Immigrants are becoming more influential in elections. Impeaching Obama. Chris Hayes on Hebron. DoJ appeals ruling overturning DADT.

Rinku Sen at Colorlines has one of the best arguments I’ve read so far for why people should stop using “illegal immigrant”: The word homosexual, for example, is clinically correct but experienced as dehumanizing by gay and lesbian people, and so they pushed for journalists to drop it. As the discourse changes, so does the […]

I know I’m late on this, but this video sponsored by Health Care for America Now, starring Jack Black and America Ferrera, is pretty funny:

Earlier this week, Evan McMorris-Santoro reported that Yuma County Republicans have been sending around this mailer with images of bullet holes in a stop sign, implying illegal immigrants are the cause of the violence: In case you’re not getting what the scary brown people and their guns are supposed to mean to you, there’s an […]

The trial of Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr for the murder of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer which he was alleged to have committed in Afghanistan in 2002 has been through a number of dramatic setbacks, from Khadr boycotting the trial to his lawyer, Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, collapsing in the courtroom a couple […]

I think the good folks at Utne misread the point of my piece on the ACLU looking to science fiction to prepare for future threats to civil liberties: Stanley published a report called Technology, Liberties, and The Future that drew inspiration from sci-fi novels and movies like Gattaca, Brave New World, and Blade Runner to […]

Conservatives have been complaining about this statement Michelle Obama made on the Tom Joyner show yesterday: So, once again, we have the power. We’ve got this man in office. I think we’re all proud of Barack and his accomplishments. Everybody I know in our communities are praying for us. Every day we feel that. And […]

I really don’t care about Delaware Republican Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell‘s views on masturbation, though I find it mildly amusing that she lied on her resume but claims she wouldn’t lie to the Nazis to protect Anne Frank. During yesterday’s debate, though, she said something that is both outrageous and relevant to the job she’s […]