Adam Serwer

VoteVets, the progressive veterans organization, has come with a statement expressing excitement over the possibility of retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez running for Senate in Texas: “General Sanchez has such a compelling story, and already served this nation honorably and ably,” said Ashwin Madia, an Iraq War Veteran, and Interim Chairman of VoteVets.org. “We’re always […]

Aswini Anburajan has some statistics to keep in mind as Democrats in the Senate urge the administration to set up a system where potential DREAM Act beneficiaries can apply for “deferred action” to avoid deportation. Anburajan reminds us that the administration, while ostensibly prioritizing the deportation of undocumented immigrants who are dangerous, have been deporting […]

Having spent months flogging the New Black Panther Party scandal as evidence that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are sympathetic to black separatists, only to see their complaints discredited, conservatives have latched onto the idea that the administration prevented the Council on American Islamic Relations from being indicted in connection with the […]

I don’t agree with Matt Welch on the Commerce Clause, but he’s right about “disinterestedness.” Former Solicitor General Paul Clement will be defending DOMA. What Congress would look like if it reflected American diversity. Moar DADT dead-enders.

Michael Yaki has been reappointed by the House to another term on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which recently lost two conservative members. The commission had skewed conservative since George W. Bush had essentially gamed the system with two “independent” appointees who were actually Republicans. Two conservatives were replaced by two new appointees from […]

Melissa McEwen thinks that HBO’s first episode of Game of Thrones was exploitative: Leaving aside the exploitative nature of the storytelling, it’s also just lazy and intellectually insulting. I am a grown-ass adult capable of understanding that Tyrion Lannister is a lech without actually hearing the slurping sounds while he gets a blowjob and seeing […]

Greg Sargent reports that retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez , who was implicated early on in the Abu Ghraib scandal is being pushed by the Democratic Party to run for Senate in Texas. Unlike some Republican recruits last cycle however, Sanchez seems to have turned against torture as policy: An independent inquiry in 2004 did […]

The New York Times ran an extensive profile last week on the godfather of “attrition through enforcement” immigration policy, John Tanton. Tanton is the founder of Numbers USA, Federation for American Immigration Reform, and the Center for Immigration Studies, three organizations that make up much of the institutional backbone of the immigration restrictionist movement. “Attrition […]

The feud between the American Conservative Union’s Grover Norquist and Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma about whether to to raise any taxes at all in order to balance the budget has gone someplace I didn’t really expect it to: The tensions between Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and Coburn’s office have intensified, with each side […]

Obama‘s done a great deal on his own to normalize some of the practices of the Bush presidency when it comes to national security. But the logic of Obama’s decision to issue a signing statement on the “czars” provision of the budget bill aside, as I explain at Greg‘s place the “czar” issue is one […]