Adam Serwer

Julianne Hing‘s dispatches from the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the BART police officer who was caught on video shooting an unarmed Oscar Grant in San Francisco last year, are really quite striking: The night he shot Grant, [Mehserle] didn’t really want to come into work. Not just because New Year’s Eve was an all hands […]

After the Supreme Court ruled that there is an individual right to bear arms in the Heller case overturning the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., it was just a matter of time before a legal challenge to gun restrictions would offer the opportunity for the court to expand gun rights to the states. The […]

I’m not a particularly forgiving person, and “former member of the KKK” is right up there with “former member of al-Qaeda” in terms of people I’d want to associate myself with. Still, it’s hard not to look at Sen. Robert Byrd‘s journey from KKK leader to supporting the first black president of the United States […]

Dave Weigel resigned from The Washington Post after saying mean things about some Republicans in private, but writing blog posts comparing Solicitor General Elena Kagan to a prostitute is the kind of thing that gets you invited by Republicans to testify at her Senate confirmation hearing. Also, you should take a moment and read my […]

I’m in agreement with Marcy Wheeler that Jake Tapper, in an otherwise excellent and thorough interview with CIA Chief Leon Panetta, failed to get to the one of the key questions regarding the use of drones in the targeted killings of suspected enemy targets. I think even most staunch opponents to the use of drones […]

So, I haven’t really done this in a while. Before I joined The American Prospect, I had a pseudonymous blog called Too Sense, which was named after an angry little pseudonymous zine I published in high school. That blog was mostly focused on race, but it helped me get a job here at TAP straight […]

Uh, is this thing on?

I love this Wale track.

Scott Shane has a really good piece on a conversation we really need to be having–to what extent are America’s ongoing wars “normalizing” conflict between the West and Islam in a manner that ultimately serves al-Qaeda’s interests and draws more recruits to their side? I also thought the point of Shane’s kicker is too often […]