Adam Serwer

The premise of AEI President Arthur Brooks‘ new book, The Battle, according to Jonathan Chait, is that America is engaged in some kind of culture war between a minority of statist liberals and free-enterprise loving conservatives who apparently are cool with letting your house burn down if you can’t pay the fire department to put […]

What has Pete Rouse “fixed?” Hopefully nothing in Galt’s Gulch ever catches on fire. Jon Chait on Arthur Brooks. Interesting findings in the Center for Sexual Health Promotion’s recent survey.

The Washington Post editorial page — surprisingly — gets the New Black Panther case exactly right: For example, there is no evidence that Mr. Shabazz’s actions were directed or incited by the party or its national leader; the party essentially repudiated Mr. Shabazz in a posting on its Web site and later suspended the Philadelphia […]

Julian Sanchez has a lot more on the administration’s proposal to force Internet communications companies to reverse engineer their systems for breach by the U.S. government. Aside from being radical, there’s reason to believe it wouldn’t actually work: One could argue that these are costs worth bearing if the government’s plan had a prayer of […]

I wrote this post before seeing this ad attacking Lebanese American West Virgina Democratic Congressman Nick Rahall for having chaired Arab-Americans for Obama during the 2008 election. It features Rahall discussing while ominous music plays underneath: I’m surprised they didn’t go with the call to prayer or something. Rahall is a Christian, but I think […]

Zaid Jilani makes what one would think is an obvious point to those trying to argue that Muslims aren’t protected by the First Amendment because “Islam is an ideology.” It should be noted that even if the patrons of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro weren’t worshippers of a faith but rather political activists — and […]

New post at The Plum Line, responding to Dahlia Lithwick‘s fantastic explanation of just how bad the Roberts court has gotten. Basically my argument is that liberals have ceded the discourse on legal reasoning to the right, much they way they’ve ceded the discourse on taxes, in part because liberals don’t care much about what […]

In contrast to Gallup, the tracking poll from the firm Latino Decisions, which specializes in Latino public opinion, offers a different portrait of Democratic fortunes among Latinos: More importantly, congressional vote intention favors Democrats 57.6% to 18.7%, with 23.6% undecided, a surprisingly high number. These numbers represent about a 6% improvement over the last two […]

Last week, I outlined the Republican strategy on immigration reform: Step one: Obstruct all efforts at immigration reform, accuse the president of holding the border “hostage” even as he deports a record number of illegal immigrants. Step two: Remind everyone how the president broke his promise to pass immigration reform. Here’s the thing: It’s working. […]

My story today is on how a previously undisclosed internal ACLU paper drew on science fiction to anticipate potential future threats to civil liberties and ultimately led to the group’s most successful science-based lawsuit over the patenting of two genes that had been linked to breast cancer. [Warning: If you haven’t seen Moon yet, and […]