Last Monday, federal prosecutors in Alabama revealed that they had indicted a lawyer for allegedly making false statements under oath. Perhaps such a charge might not seem extraordinary. But the case, which targets Carl Charles, a transgender civil rights attorney, is anything but ordinary. Over three years, multiple federal judges in Alabama have used secret […]
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to kill new federal regulations with a simple […]
I am reluctant to keep going after the New York Times’ Ezra Klein, because I recently published a long review of his book Abundance (co-written with Derek Thompson), which was, well, not positive. I don’t want this to end up like my disagreement with “rationalist” writer Sam Harris, which concluded with him calling me “mentally unwell” for writing at such great length about him. (I had actually only written one article, but admittedly it was very long.) There are more things in heaven and earth than Ezra Klein’s bad opinions, and I promise to put a lengthy moratorium on Klein criticism from today forward.