Adam Serwer

Stephanie Mercimer tries to parse Andy McCarthy‘s latest attack on Elena Kagan, which is titled: Hmmm … Is it just me or does this sound familiar? I just can’t quite… Oh. It’s almost as though when McCarthy finds someone he doesn’t like, he finds a way to draw a connection between them and Sharia. McCarthy’s […]

I think my favorite conservative reaction to the New Black Panther Party case so far has come from John Hinderaker at Powerline, who decries “Eric Holder‘s racist enforcement policies.” It is rather comical that the same media outlets who enthusiastically propagated the false claim that the Bush administration had politicized DOJ studiously avert their eyes […]

Continuing the ongoing media farce that is Fox’s coverage of the new Black Panther case, Oliver Willis points to a segment in which poll watcher Bartle Bull, the poll watcher who was present at the polling station in Philadelphia when the incident occurred, ties the NBPP case to ACORN: BULL: We’re making judgments. We don’t […]

The term “reverse racism” has always bothered me, but until recently I never realized why. I suppose there are some people in academia who still think that “black people can’t be racist,” because black people don’t have the political or social power to implement their prejudice as policy, but these people are obviously a minority. […]

In 1989, Elena Kagan filed an amicus brief arguing that 2 Live Crew’s album, As Nasty As They Wanna Be, which had been banned by a federal judge because of its sexual content, wasn’t obscene in part because no one could possibly be aroused by it. “Nasty does not physically excite anyone who hears it,” […]

Rush Limbaugh, arguing that the Obama administration is prolonging the recession as “payback” against white people: He said somebody else said, ‘This is payback,’ meaning, ‘All right, look. We don’t care if it’s the New Black Panthers or whoever it is. Black people in this country have never, ever had a fair shake. This is […]

One of The American Prospect‘s blessings and curses is that we’re sometimes ahead of the curve, and in November 2008, in focusing an issue on the structural and institutional obstacles to progressive governance prior to the presidential election, we were way ahead of the curve. Recently, a [[I’D CUT SPORADIC, IT SEEMS WEIRD TO HAVE […]

Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, Osama bin Laden‘s former chef, has given the Obama administration its first conviction by military commission, pleading guilty to providing material support for terrorism. As Spencer Ackerman reports, al-Qosi wasn’t the most fearsome character: But the former al-Qaeda chef wasn’t exactly cooking up anthrax in his kitchen. “During […]

More on “acting white” from Jamelle Bouie. The revamped military commissions secure their first conviction, against Osama bin Laden‘s cook. Another reason to like the Fake AP Style Book more. Mitt Romney‘s efforts to show he has a grasp on foreign affairs continue to fail. But at least he knows what he’s doing on health […]

New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio is now demanding that his Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo, investigate the Cordoba Initiative, the organization headed by Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf that is building an Islamic Center near Ground Zero: “We’re asking the attorney general to exert his authority to investigate the sources of these donations … to […]