North Carolina
North Carolina's Ugly Amendment One
Yesterday, voters in North Carolina approved a narrow-minded, mean-spirited, and poorly-written state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. What happens now? READ MORE >>
Euro Trashed
As a card-carrying member of the Betrayed by John Edwards Alumni Association, I’ll admit that my initial response to his federal indictment for violating campaign laws was skepticism. Yes, Edwards was an egocentric, lying, baby-denying cad who betrayed his dying wife. I doubted, however, that he had committed a crime. READ MORE >>
Romney Cleaned Up; It's Still Gonna Cost Him
States vs. Plutocrats
Election 2012: What the MetroMonitor Says
The G.O.P. primary struggle is finally beginning to wind down (though nobody seems to have told the candidates!) and predictably the commentariat is moving on toward big-picture macro predictions about the national election. READ MORE >>
David Thomson on Films: Why I Hate ‘The Hunger Games’
There are several spoilers in this review of The Hunger Games, and I’ll get them out of the way early. The film shows precious little hunger and no sense of game. It’s a terrible movie, but it grossed $68.25 million on its first Friday. So that’s where your teenage daughters were over the weekend—or what they told you. And that’s why film critics sometimes feel their own futility. READ MORE >>
Trayvon Martin's Imaginary Weapon
"He has his hand in his waistband," George Zimmerman told the 911 dispatcher in Sanford, Fla., shortly before he shot and killed Trayvon Martin. "He has something in his hand.” Presumably Zimmerman thought that "something" was a gun. But Martin was unarmed. READ MORE >>
Ignoble Specificities
Living OriginalismBy Jack M. Balkin(Belknap Press, 474 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
