Monica Potts

Arizona has already become the laughing-stock of the nation by passing an anti-immigration bill that would allow police to demand proof of citizenship of anyone who seems to be “breathing while Latino,” and now things have gotten even worse. The state’s Department of Education has been telling school districts that teachers with accents shouldn’t be […]

So, every so often, I go to Subway. I don’t like Subway sandwiches, and don’t even really regard them as subs. I was a Subway “sandwich artist” during my high school days, and I forever smelled of bread and pickles. My fingernails were green, and I had to wash my Subway polos in a separate, […]

The libertarian take on the Federal Drug Administration’s plan to lower the amount of salt in certain kinds of food over the next decade is that, of course, people should be able to choose what they eat. This, and other efforts to tax sugary foods like sodas always spur that response: Food is personal and […]

Via a tweet from Matt Yglesias, we noticed something odd about the new Washington Post Post Politics authors page. Out of 27 total columnists and reporters, three are black men and three are white women. The rest are white men. And if you don’t scroll past the fold, white men are all you see. This […]

Yesterday, Mother Jones ran a quick item in which they revealed that Mead-Johnson is making chocolate-flavored baby formula, with ingredients that look alarmingly similar to those not-very-good-for-you chocolate drinks you got at the gas station when you were a kid. What’s especially scary, too, is that we already know how good formula companies are at […]

In my post yesterday I did not address the fact that Gizmodo had paid $5,000 to the person who found it in a bar. I wanted to update today to look at how that complicates the issue. I’m a First Amendment purist, and I’m willing to say that if a journalist gets his or her […]

The Oklahoma Legislature has voted to override Gov. Brad Henry‘s veto of two of the strictest abortion measures in the nation. States have so far used health-care reform as an excuse to restrict access to abortion by eliminating them from the exchanges and passing other laws that further limit a woman’s right to choose. Nebraska […]

President Obama’s deference to Congress is getting annoying. Via the Wonk Room, the White House’s domestic policy adviser, Melody Barnes kept telling Chuck Todd on MSNBC that while the White House wants to work with Congress, Majority Leader Harry Reid sets the agenda. All of this is in response to Reid’s reported desire to move […]

The tech blog Gizmodo says police executed search warrants in the home and car of Jason Chen, the blogger who wrote about the new iPhone prototype that was left in a California bar. Computers and other items were seized as potential evidence in a crime. Gawker Media, which runs the blog, has requested the items […]