Month: May 2014

I predict that Ta-Nehisi Coates will win many awards for his latest piece making the case for reparations for the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and predatory housing policies. He’s right that the subject has become a taboo,...

The family that lives to my right is Mexican-American, and the family that lives across the street is mixed-race in the exact same way that Barack Obama’s family was mixed-race, meaning that there is a white parent but...

Nancy Pelosi has decided to have the Democrats participate on the Select Committee to Investigate the Benghazi Attacks. Unsurprisingly, Elijah Cummings of Maryland will serve as the ranking member of the committee. The others...

As Maria Saccetti reported in the Boston Globe, that Aaron McFarlane was the FBI agent that killed Ibragim Todashev.  The FBI has protected the name and identity of the killer since the incident and of course, cleared the...

If you were planning to celebrate the departure from Congress next year of Georgian congressmen Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey, you may want to think again. As Ed Kilgore details at the Washington Monthly, their likely replacements...