Adam Serwer

Apparently, four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell isn’t immune to Fox News’ absolute commitment to perpetuating as many black stereotypes as possible. This is the headline of a recent Fox story: Hip-Hop-Dancing Colin Powell Fuels Speculation He’ll Endorse Obama Beware America. Your favorite Negro has been hanging out with other negroes and […]

In Ohio, a federal judge ruled yesterday that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has to use the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database or the Social Security Administration database to verify the registrations of some 660,000 newly registered voters. “It is hard to imagine a public interest more compelling than safeguarding the legitimacy of the […]

Drew Griffin is getting a lot of kudos on the right for his reporting on ACORN, which regularly omits relevant information. In his first report, he failed to distinguish between voter fraud and registration fraud, and he neglected to mention that ACORN is required by law in Indiana to turn in all of its forms, […]

It’s really not clear to me why conservatives seem to think that the proper response to the financial crisis is to blame “minorities,” despite all available evidence, but it seems to be practically an article of faith. An atheist might as well argue with a believer as to whether or not angels exist. It’s practically […]

Bill Kristol wants some of the young bucks to get out of the game before they hurt themselves: Is John McCain the best messenger for his campaign? Why isn’t he on this show? Why do we have Tucker Bounds and a bunch of nice young kids who are spokesmen out there spinning implausibly on behalf […]

I’ve written time and time again about the right’s inability to distinguish between registration fraud and voter fraud, and the media’s gleefully panicked reporting on the subject. Yesterday, the McCain campaign sent out an e-mail suggesting that it was within ACORN’s ability to “steal” the election through voter registration fraud, which would actually be impossible. […]

Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin‘s baby, is dropping out of high school to get a job. A few short months ago, the right believed that this kind of behavior was singularly responsible for economic problems in the black community, and possibly the result of Jesus being thrust out of public life. Now it’s […]

This post has been edited for clarity. Ta-Nehisi Coates has a Time column on what will happen if Obama loses the election: So, yes, an Obama defeat would be greeted with a loud sucking of the teeth and a deepening of self-doubt. A loss would be hugely disappointing, and to put it crudely, it would […]

John McCain likes to act like a tough guy. It’s one of the reasons people like him. It doesn’t make me like him, but from what I hear some people think it’s charming. In 2000, he went around saying he was going to “beat Al Gore like a drum.” Still, the person who let him […]