Adam Serwer

I’ll have more on Newt Gingrich’s mainstreaming of Islamophobia later, but for now I want to point out one example of mangled context that Matt Duss left out of his thorough response: Last month, police in Dearborn, Mich., which has a large Muslim population, arrested Christian missionaries for handing out copies of the Gospel of […]

Newt Gingrich‘s latest screed in Townhall really has to be read to be believed. Cobbling together anecdotes and ideas from Islamophobic conservative writers like Andy McCarthy, Gingrich goes full on in arguing that it’s not enough to simply fight terrorists: Some radical Islamists use terrorism as a tactic to impose sharia but others use non-violent […]

Louis C.K. on white privilege and time travel: It’s not so much that what he says about white people “paying for this” someday is true; it’s that that fear animates a larger part of American racial politics. The time traveling thing, however, is completely accurate — you don’t want to know what happens when you […]

Lyle Denniston reports that attorneys for three non-Afghan detainees at Bagram who were captured in third countries and are looking to assert habeas rights in U.S. courts are filing a new suit. Despite the fact that the Boumediene case grants habeas rights to detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, a few months ago, the D.C. Circuit […]

Newt Gingrich helps outline the Mosque Exclusion Zone. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vs. Paul the “clairvoyant” octopus. If you can’t trust a man with charity money you can’t trust him with your vote. Abigail Thernstrom vs. Andy McCarthy on the NBPP Case.

I thought I had hedged more in my original post on the Wikileaks Afghanistan documents about there being nothing new in them yet — but I hadn’t. So let me eat my words and point out that several people are finding interesting stuff in there, including Spencer Ackerman, who reports on Turkish Militants attacking American […]

There’s been some shock over this statement from Tennessee’s lieutenant governor, Ron Ramsey, who is currently running for the GOP nomination in the governor’s race: You could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion or is it a nationality, way of life or cult, whatever you want to call it. If you’re […]

Jesse Walker: Although the Jedis did assist the Rebel Alliance in overthrowing a tyrannical emperor, it’s clear that the Knights were originally set up to enforce the Galactic Senate’s big government agenda. Dan Drezner responds: I must say, I find Jesse’s lack of faith disturbing. Based on the Star Wars films, we know very little […]

Jeffery Lord is desperate to keep embarrassing both himself and The American Spectator: Random House Webster’s College Dictionary defines lynching as: “to put to death, esp. hanging by mob action and without legal authority.” I have read the Court’s decision. Three people are not a “mob.” A mob is defined as a “large crowd.” So […]

I’ve liked The Economist‘s coverage of corrections issues in the United States over the years, but a friend pointed out an amusing part of their last piece that my eyes somehow glazed over the first time I read it: Such cases account for only a tiny share of the Americans behind bars, but they still […]