Adam Serwer

Paul Campos responds to the Rick Sanchez freakout. What Dan Drezner said. The U.S. apologizes for a Tuskegee-like syphilis experiment in Guatemala. Jessica Valenti asks, “who stole Feminism?”

Spencer Ackerman, doing some fantastic reporting, shows how Blackwater got its latest lucrative federal contract, despite supposedly being banned from doing so over incidents involving employees shooting civilians: Eight private security firms have won State’s giant Worldwide Protective Services contract, the big Foggy Bottom partnership to keep embassies and their inhabitants safe. Two of those […]

For folks who are interested in this topic, I did an audio piece for the NewsHour a couple of years ago on how this might fit into the new administration’s “Fatherhood Agenda,” on a program that records incarcerated parents reading to their kids and then sends them the audio tapes. You can listen to it […]

In August, in response to the Center for Constitutional Rights, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement issued a letter purporting to “set the record straight” about its record of immigration enforcement, angrily rejecting the criticisms of immigrants rights groups. In particular, ICE criticized these groups for suggesting that its “Secure Communities” program, under which the biometric identifying […]

Newt Gingrich, two weeks ago: “Every person who cares about America’s future has an absolute obligation to work as hard as they can from now and election day this year and to work for the next two years to replace the elites with common sense, grass-roots Americans who at least understand the truth and who […]

Early in his term, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell instituted one of the worst, most restrictive policies for reenfranchising ex-felons in the country. He later backed off those restrictions while under fire from civil rights groups. Then something interesting happened. More people got their voting rights back: His administration has approved 780 of 889 applicants – […]

I’m not finding Tim Cavanaugh‘s defense of Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman‘s nannygate very persuasive: You might make the case that Whitman should have confronted Diaz and said, “Hey Nicky, we need to sign a form and send it to Attorney General Reno proving that you’re in this country legally and able to work — […]

Since Osama bin Laden‘s last tape was all about how world governments weren’t acting fast enough on climate change, I expected his latest offering to be similarly topical–like about how that new show Outsourced really sucks and how NBC should bring Parks and Rec back. He’s chosen to criticize Pakistan for its handling of the […]

Markos Moulitsas tries to debunk the “liberal overreach” narrative. Congress’ refusal to renew the TANF emergency fund is a disaster. Opponents of a mosque in Tennessee claim Islam isn’t a religion. Robert Wright‘s “one to two-state solution.” Conor Fridersdorf on targeted killing.

Dave Weigel writes about how if Republicans ride to victory in November denouncing the expansive power of the federal government, Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, who will run the District of Columbia Subcommittee, plans to use that power to completely violate DC residents’ right to govern themselves by helping to overturn recently passed District laws […]