“Inside the billionaire’s quixotic, costly, and strangely milquetoast foray into opinion journalism” is an article at Chris Hughes’ New Republic. At.
I guess this counts as the apology for what New Republic editor Frank Foer calls the magazine’s “original sin”: Fifteen years after publishing her stunningly dishonest article on Bill Clinton’s health care reform bill, TNR takes on Betsey McCaughey…
TNR’s got a good summary by Jonathan Chait of how the arguments against same-sex marriage are all pretty much ridiculous bullshit. Here’s my favorite part:
The most striking thing about anti-gay-marriage arguments is that they dwell exclusively on how heterosexuals would…
Hopefully Barack Obama will move quickly to appoint a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, if only to put a halt to all the whining and carping and speculating and handicapping that’s going on regarding the next nominee…