This post originally appeared on the personal website of Tressie McMillan Cottom. I once set out to write a book of southern aphorisms. It was going to be a serious treatment of (mostly) black (uniquely) southern “mother wit” as philosophy. Then, grad school and so on and so on. If I were to undertake a […]
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Sunday Show Becomes 10 Percent Less Awful
A tiny bit of progress on Meet the Press.
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Why “Noah” Shouldn’t Get a Happy Ending
The trouble with Darren Aronofsky’s blockbuster isn’t that it’s offensive to Christians; it’s that it’s too Christianized.
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Federal Court Upholds Texas’s War On Roe v. Wade
The restrictive abortion law that rocketed Wendy Davis to fame is making its way through the courts—and it could be upheld at the highest one.
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More Than Corruption Threatens the Integrity of Our Democracy
The sad tale of how the Supreme Court got McCutcheon v. FEC wrong and how that’s helping to foster an Inequality Era. Â
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Some Notes on the Outrage Industrial Complex
Liberals are now just as able as conservatives to find obscure people to hold up to ridicule. Does it matter?
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Daily Meme: The Fog of Donald Rumsfeld
You may recall an infamous news conference in February 2002–a year before the invasion of Iraq-when reporters packed the Pentagon Briefing Room, hoping to wring some answers about Saddam Hussein’s shadowy weapons of mass destruction program from senior defense officials. Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary, decided that the reporters did not deserve the benefit of […]
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Is the “Mend It” Period of the Affordable Care Act’s Evolution Beginning?
Just like every major piece of legislation, it’ll require adjustment. Even Republicans may be realizing that.
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George Takei, Living Long and Prospering from Social Media
How the former Star Trek star has become internet’s funny, corny uncle and its moral compass.
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Daily Meme: Points of Clarification
The modern world is so confusing. Fortunately, there are lots of people out there trying to clarify things for you, so in today’s meme, we’re seeking and finding clarity on what bedevils us. Are you a Supreme Court justice who doesn’t quite understand how different birth control methods work, what with all those confusing ladyparts […]
