The Texas job miracle is no miracle — it’s because of immigration.
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Conservative Journalism, Raising the Bar
I’m a longtime critic of the idea that “objectivity” is the true and only path to journalistic truth, and I believe that here at the Prospect, we prove it every day. It’s perfectly possible to have a point of view and still produce journalism that is accurate and fair. The temptation to seize on the […]
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It Doesn’t Get Better for Bullies
Do you know the “It Gets Better” project? In response to last year’s spate of gay-teen suicides, writer and editor Dan Savage launched a series of online videos in which adults tell teens: Hang on. High school isn’t forever. You will have a good life. Some have been fabulous, burning their way across the Internets; […]
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Mitt Romney’s Health Care Non-Problem
Jonathan Bernstein explains why dealing with “Obamneycare” or whatever you might want to call it isn’t such a big deal for Mitt Romney after all: the GOP electorate doesn’t actually care about health care reform the same way it cares about, say, abortion or taxes on rich people. Or, as I’m now putting it, Republican […]
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Marry Me
Yesterday, The Washington Post published a nice summary of the various federal lawsuits underway in the court battles over same-sex marriage, a piece occasioned by a panel at the College of William and Mary Law School’s Institute of Bill of Rights Law. The panel, according to reporter Robert Barnes, was debating whether the government’s political […]
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Decision Season
Will the Supreme Court rule on the Affordable Care Act during the height of the 2012 election campaign?
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Can Tammy Baldwin Win?
Over at TheAtlantic.com, I look into the question of whether openly lesbian Tammy Baldwin can become Wisconsin’s senator. Pop quiz: What’s the ” L-word” that’s likely to hurt her most? Hint: It’s not this one. Here’s an excerpt: In 1998, Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay candidate to be elected to the U.S. Congress […]
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He’s Just Not That Into Blue
For years, liberals have entertained the possibility that Mitt Romney is secretly a moderate whom they could actually agree with. After all, he was for abortion before he was against it, and Romneycare is no conservative achievement. Jonathan Chait admitted as much in 2008, a position he reiterated last week: “He is not, at heart, […]
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More on The Playboy Club
Here’s a follow-up to my mini-review last week of NBC’s The Playboy Club: a Daily Beast article, “My Mom’s Life as a Playboy Bunny,” by Susanna Spier. Spier interviews her mother about what things were really like. Was Hugh Hefner’s comment — that bunnies could be anything they wanted to be — accurate? Ha. We […]
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Ron Paul, Crazy Person
Last night, Ron Paul was on The Daily Show, and under the gentlest of questioning from Jon Stewart, he said some truly insane things. After alleging that people who don’t support him “don’t understand what freedom is all about,” Paul made his usual case that government is bad because it makes decisions for everyone, whereas […]
