Culture War Is All That's Left When Gun Policy Battles Become Pointless
Forget the debates over laws that can't make a difference; the heat and noise is really all about political tribes attempting to inconvenience each other.
Forget the debates over laws that can't make a difference; the heat and noise is really all about political tribes attempting to inconvenience each other.
Watch sociologist Emily Horowitz debate legal scholar Marci Hamilton at the Soho Forum.
Argues that secret wiretap authorizations were not abused.
The culture of curling rejects appeals to authority and encourages civility even in the midst of intense competition. That's a lesson for American politics.
A total of 32 claims of tax and bank fraud in concealing foreign income.
The state Supreme Court did away with a Republican gerrymander and tilted the new map toward Democrats. That should be worrying.
The "information warfare" described in Friday's indictment is not an existential threat to American democracy.
James Woolsey says America only interferes in other nations' elections "for a very good cause," but he can't keep a straight face while saying it.
Looking back a few years after hypothetical new restrictions on semiautomatic weapons in private hands, we see a country grown more divided, but no less armed.
Four questions to ask yourself before you freak out about Trump's latest tweet
Thirteen individuals and three companies accused of conspiracy against the U.S., wire fraud, and identity theft.
A bizarre New York Times piece knocks down a strawman.
No robots need apply.
An autopsy for the brief limited-government era of conservatism that ended on Friday
Stanford political scientist Morris Fiorina says it's media and political elites who live in ideological bubbles, not regular Americans.
At some point, maybe we should just take Trump's antics as a given
I helped make the grassroots activist movement a reality. But now the party's over.
Here are the moments when Republicans, including professed deficit hawks, snuffed out the 2009-2014 flicker of budgetary sanity
Friday A/V Club: Before there was Arthur Jones, there was Mark Fairchild.
The number of structurally deficient bridges, never high to begin with, has been dropping over the past 30 years.
The first comprehensive survey on attitudes about human enhancement finds Americans are open to some crazy new technologies.
The cartoonist-turned-political-prognisticator talks about "master persuaders" and winning arguments in a "world where facts don't matter."
Controversy over LNC Vice-Chair Arvin Vohra's comments on veterans, age of consent laws makes Sharpe realize he doesn't belong on the national party's governing board.
The FBI's disappointing surveillance of Carter Page illustrates the difficulty of implicating the president in illegal collusion.
The SCOTUS won't get involved in a dispute over Pennsylvania's congressional district lines. Could an algorithm succeed where lawmakers and judges have failed?
His Ghost Gunner and 3D printing are destroying the concept of gun control.
The religion this church administers is Americanism, a species of nationalism.
The state uses a panel of partisan officials with absolute discretion to determine who gets to vote again
Does the news ever feel like the same thing over and over and over again?
Friday A/V Club: Columnist, broadcaster, and critic of concentrated power
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the president's role in writing an ass-covering statement that was misleading but not illegal.
The U.S. used to come in second or third in rankings, but according to the latest Human Freedom Index it's at 17.
If everything problematic is evil, silencing and punishing everything problematic becomes a social necessity.
"The Christian morality of sacrifice and altruism is wrong," says Brook, executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute.
How libertarians learned to stop worrying and love The Dispossessed
A new poll says voters want change. They can get it if they truly want it.
Florida voters are set to consider deleting a provision in the Florida Constitution depriving convicted felons of the right to vote. It's about time.
The measure would also require officers to render first aid directly after shootings and undergo new training.
A survey by an anti-marijuana group finds that only 16 percent of Americans support the current federal policy.
A new poll shows white women souring on the GOP.
New report claims U.S. overpopulation will blight their futures.
Sloppy seduction or sexual assault? If those are your terms, you're already missing the point.