Adam Serwer

Jonathan Chait thinks I’m wrong, and the GOP is gonna tone it down in 2012: Basically, I don’t see how an electorate tilting leftward, and more heavily minority, shows that the GOP is going to delve further into right-wing culture war politics. That’s how Republicans might respond to an electorate with a rising proportion of […]

On my way back from the Senate’s hearing on Muslim civil-rights earlier this week, I picked up DC Comics’ reprint of the original Static comic books. Static was part of the short-lived black comic book label Milestone, who went on to have an extraordinarily successful second-life in Saturday morning cartoons. Milestone’s recent integration into the […]

Scott Lemieux writes about the injustice served by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court in the case of John Thompson, who spent almost 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. But the injustice didn’t end there. Earlier this week, a bare majority of the Supreme Court threw out the jury award. […]

I’m trying to help Greg out a bit today while he’s off handling personal matters, so that’s why the pace of the blog is a bit slow today. Here’s my first post from this morning building off of Ron Brownstein‘s look at the census numbers: The Republican Party had a choice after 2008. They could […]

I don’t really understand why this sort of criticism from Christopher Preble seems to be so popular: In the end, the Valkyries got their war. Clinton’s advice, along with that of Samantha Power and Susan Rice, who have all loudly called for U.S. military intervention in the past, convinced President Obama to override Gates and […]

David Brooks‘ love letter to President Barack Obama today is nauseating: President Obama took this decision, I’m told, fully aware that there was no political upside while there were enormous political risks. He took it fully aware that we don’t know much about Libya. He took it fully aware that if he took this action […]

This video of remarks by Sen. Rand Paul at the Congressional Correspondents Dinner , flagged by Zaid Jilani, is pretty great: PAUL: I was happy to see that Newt Gingrich has staked out a position on the war, a position, or two, or maybe three. I don’t know. I think he has more war positions […]

Florida Republicans think “uterus” is profanity. This explains so much. Steve Coll says don’t arm the Libyan rebels. Fox News’ New Black Panther correspondent doesn’t seem to want to talk about the results of the OPR investigation. Who’s behind all those black genocide abortion billboards?

Last time I posted on long-shot GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, Ta-Nehisi Coates referred to his brand of identity politics as “white populism.” I think this supports that theory: “The political establishment is not going to elect Herman Cain. The political elite’s are not going to support me,” Cain said. “ABC, CBS and NBC they’re […]

Foreign Policy has a slideshow of dictator mustaches. Of the “toothbrush” whiskers associated with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, they write: When it first appeared on men’s faces in the late 19th century, the mustache that Adolf Hitler made infamous was known as the “toothbrush.” Not so much today. The Hitler mustache, Rich Cohen wrote in […]