Adam Serwer

Say you’re a high-level official in some federal agency under a new administration, with an eye toward shifting that agency’s priorities away from stuff you think is less important, like X, and toward stuff you think is more important, like Y. What do you do, short of ordering them to do Y and to stop […]

As Adam has noted before, the anti-choice movement is waging a comprehensive campaign that alleges higher abortion rates within the African American community are evidence of a “nationwide conspiracy to commit genocide against black people.” Originally focused on unleashing incendiary billboards across the country, anti-choice activists unveiled the latest machination of this demonization campaign last […]

Watching the conservative reaction to Osama bin Laden‘s death reveals a clear methodology for evaluating the presidency of George W. Bush, one that can be boiled down to a simple rule: Bush is responsible for all of the good things that happen during other presidencies and none of the bad ones that happened during his […]

Bet you didn’t see that headline coming! (Or, anyway, those of you who know my work at Prison Law Blog.) Probably my least favorite op-ed template is “omg California is soooo fiscally irresponsible!” and my second-least favorite is “now for fun, let’s bash government workers!” so obviously, this op-ed by Allysia Finley really aroused my […]

San Francisco’s largely known as a transient city, one whose charms are only outweighed by the price it takes to indulge in them. So, while stories like these that tout the supposed “hardships” facing small property owners who who are going up against the city’s big, bad pro-tenant laws certainly aren’t surprising, they still make […]

So conspiracy theories are already circulating about the death (or “death”, I guess) of Osama bin Laden. Furthermore, Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins, who run the Senate Homeland Security Committee, are already taking the “deather” theories seriously enough to request that President Obama release pictures of the body “to quell any doubts that this […]

Today, Americans can rest easy regarding a threat on two fronts. Osama bin Laden is dead and Muslim Americans are happy about it. Yes, thanks to this story at the Detroit Free Press, we can now be certain that American Muslims we’ve suspected for so long officially rebuke bin Laden. Ta-Nehisi Coates points out the […]

By now, you’ve likely already read what Adam and Chris have to say about the execution of Osama bin Laden. Here’s my co-worker Kai Wright on the perverse logic that our country’s commitment to violence is what makes us great: President Obama is the leader of a nation in which justice is but a distant […]

The royal wedding doesn’t make women dumb. Shuffling the national security team deck. Getting Syrious. Stuck in the beltway deficit feedback loop.