Adam Serwer

The focus of the NAACP’s report, Misplaced Priorities, is that government spending on prisons and incarceration is growing faster than every other category other than health care, to which it still remains a distant second. This spending, the NAACP argues, is sucking dollars away that would be better spent on education, and facilitating a vicious […]

Simon Maloy picks apart an amazingly terrible photoshop job touted by Jack Cashill, the WorldNetDaily columnist who thinks Barack Obama’s real father might be Jimi Hendrix. I think my favorite part about the whole thing is that even if the photo, which depicts Obama with his grandparents in New York City, wasn’t real, what does […]

Some thoughts on Rep. Paul Ryan‘s supposed “courage” over at Greg’s place: When we call a person brave, what we usually mean is that his or her “bravery” is being employed towards an end we agree with. In this case, those who are hailing Ryan’s proposal as brave are doing so because they agree with […]

It looks like the liberal-backed candidate, JoAnne Kloppenberg, appears to have defeated conservative David Prosser in the Wisconsin judicial election that was seen as a gauge of public dissatisfaction with Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Kloppenburg appears to have won by a really, really slim margin of a few hundred votes at best. It’s hard to […]

The Republican base loves them some Donald Trump: According to the latest national NBC/WSJ poll, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the hypothetical 2012 GOP pack with support from 21 percent of Republican primary voters — followed by Trump and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 17 percent each, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at […]

It’s all about primaries. Same old Republican agenda. You know that old saw about dogs and fleas? Seems like more than a few American politicians laid down with Moammar Gadhafi. Dr. Tiller‘s FBI file.

In the midst of Republicans attempting to destroy the social safety net, it’s important to keep in mind the difference between wealth and merit. Here’s House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy giving us an object lesson: McCARTHY: We should tighten our belt like every household in America. Imagine for one moment the hopes and dreams […]

Matthew Yglesias makes an important point about our oft-predicted brown future: I think this is a widely misreported trend. When the New York Times recently did a piece on me, Ezra Klein, Brian Beutler, and Dave Weigel exactly zero people complained about the massive over-representation of people of Latin American ancestry that reflected. People saw […]

Cats and dogs living together … mass hysteria! (Washington, DC) – David Keene, former Chairman of the American Conservative Union, and Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, will join a group of bipartisan leaders April 7th to speak about the NAACP’s upcoming report, “Misplaced Priorities: Under Educate, Over Incarcerate”. The report examines escalating […]

Congress deserves some of the blame for the failure to close Gitmo and the surrender on the 9/11 trials. But it doesn’t bear all of it, and in my column today, I argue that the real problem was embracing the basic Bush post-2006 framework in the first place: But in the end, the 9/11 trials […]