Adam Serwer

Senator Dick Lugar has withdrawn his support for the DREAM Act, which would grant a path to citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants brought here before the age of 16, arguing that the president’s speech on immigration reform “politicized” the issue: Lugar’s spokesman said Lugar did not join Democrats in reintroducing the federal legislation […]

Marc Ambinder profiles JSOC. Annie Lowrey on super-immigrants. Conor Friedersdorf on the Drug War. Majority of Americans say celebrating Osama bin Laden‘s death was wrong.

Back in 1994 when Mitt Romney was pro-choice and supported gay rights, he also supported Republican Senator John Chafee‘s health care plan, which contained a federal health insurance mandate. And therefore the death of all freedom and individual liberty in America forever. His big speech on health care is tomorrow, which I expect will resemble […]

Jamil Smith reminds us that, for all the controversy about Common visiting the White House, NWA’s Eazy E was once invited to attend a luncheon with George H.W. Bush. NWA of course, was about as anti-police as rapping gets–their song “Fuck Tha PoliceThis incidentally, lead to an awesome reimagining of the incident by The Game […]

House Democrats are protesting House Armed Committee Chairman Buck McKeon‘s plans for a new Authorization to use Military Force: Among the many troubling aspects of the Detainee Security Act are provisions that expand the war against terrorist organizations on a global basis. The Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) of 2001 was widely […]

President Barack Obama laid out his new immigration reform pitch yesterday, reiterating his support for the DREAM Act which Senate Democrats just reintroduced. With a Republican majority in the House however, one that has granted its restrictionist wing leadership on immigration matters–its passage seems unlikely. On the one hand, the conditions for pursuing immigration reform […]

I think it’s counterproductive to express contempt for the bin Laden family for asking for inquiries into the death of Osama bin Laden. I’ve expressed my view that based on what we know, the killing was clearly legal. As Mark Goldberg explains, their legal options are very limited anyway. Short of providing conclusive evidence that […]

Jesse Jackson comes out in favor of more debt for black students: I urge Secretary Arne Duncan to refrain from finalizing the Gainful Employment proposed regulation until Congress is given a full opportunity to evaluate the actual effects of this proposal on minority and lower income students in America who attend career colleges. I call […]

Tennessee’s bill treating Islam as terrorism is back. The demographic politics of immigration. Cutting Medicaid would be a disaster. Kristen Wiig‘s mutant origins.

Most of the commentary on politics and the judiciary today has focused on the fact that the three-judge panel hearing a challenge to the Affordable Care Act today is made up of Democratic employees and is therefore likely to uphold the law. But politics has affected the judiciary in other significant ways, particularly when it […]