Adam Serwer

I was on the 70 bus when it crashed Saturday afternoon on Georgia Avenue, and I took a few photos used by local ABC affiliate WJLA. I was sitting in the front of the bus, the seats reserved for the elderly and disabled when buses get crowded, and I was thrown several feet to the […]

Alleged Oslo terrorist Anders Breivik’s 1,500-page manifesto contained a number of recommendations to readers for where to go to get the truth about those barbaric Muslims. The scary part is that the FBI’s 2009 Islam 101 briefing recommends some of the same books, Spencer Ackerman reports: Among the most provocative aspects of the presentation is […]

Alyssa Rosenberg says that Captain America: The First Avenger‘s portrayal of institutional sexism wasn’t all that: My assumption was those doors were British ones — Peggy is, after all, a U.K. transplant to an American unit. And it’s true that Col. Chester Phillips can be skeptical of Peggy’s judgement out in the field as part […]

Representative Peter King’s hearings on al Shabaab’s Minnesota recruitment efforts was largely uneventful. Despite King hyping the supposed lack of cooperation with law enforcement from Minnesota’s Somali American community, when asked whether he faced any opposition the St. Paul* chief of police, Tom Smith, said that he hadn’t. One issue I would take with the […]

Contrast the reaction of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to the Olso attacks… “It’s absolutely possible to have an open, democratic, inclusive society, and at the same time have security measures and not be naive,” he said. Stoltenberg underlined his commitment to openness, defending freedom of thought even if includes extremist views such as those […]

It was two years ago that the NAACP and Baltimore city officials went after Wells Fargo over revelations that the bank had marketed subprime “ghetto loans” to blacks, referred to in internal memos as “mud people.” The Justice Department has finally decided to act, suing Wells Fargo for discriminatory lending practices. The probe isn’t coming […]

Robert Spencer is mad at me: The hapless Adam Serwer in the Washington Post lies outright when he says that “most of Geller and Spencer’s blogging consists of attempts to tar all Muslims with the responsibility for terrorism….assigning collective blame for an act of terror through guilt-by-association.” In ten books, hundreds of articles, and over […]

Yesterday, the Pew Research Center released its report on the racial wealth gap in American society, with some really depressing results. The economic crisis essentially wiped out the wealth gains made by people of color over the past 20 years, resulting in “lopsided wealth ratios,” that “are the largest since the government began publishing such […]

Obama’s favorite anti-gay pastor Rick Warren apparently has a twitter feed where he says things like: HALF of America pays no taxes. ZERO. So they’re happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay taxes. Kevin Drum has a chart that says otherwise: I must have missed the part of […]

Alex Pareene makes an important point about alleged Oslo shooter Anders Breivik identifying as a Christian: He’s a sick perversion of Christianity, sure. But if he “doesn’t count” as a Christian solely because no one this evil should “count” as a Christian (which is [Bill] O’Reilly’s other argument — “no one believing in Jesus commits […]