Month: June 2013

Last November, after the elections, the House Republicans chose their committee chairmen for the 113th Congress. All nineteen of them were white men. This followed stunning events in the last Congress, like holding a hearing on...

Antonin Scalia’s blistering dissent (pdf., scroll down) in Maryland v. King is utterly convincing. In a 5-4 ruling that included Roberts, Thomas, Alito, and Breyer, and was written by Kennedy, the Supreme Court said that...

With the unfortunate passing of Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Republican Governor Chris Christie will be allowed to appoint a replacement and set the date for a special election. Since it is widely believed that...

The College Republican National Committee commissioned a report to try to understand how the party stands with voters under thirty. What they discovered was that their policies are almost universally rejected by young voters....

Darrell Issa understandably likes to hide behind the fact that he has never actually been prosecuted for his alleged criminal activities, but that doesn’t mean that the allegations haven’t been made. Former White...