The Secret History of the New Black Panther Case

Adam Serwer has a must-read piece on the case against the New Black Panther Party, the thuggish fringe group whose members were detained on Election Day 2008 for waving nightsticks outside of a mostly-black, mostly-Democratic polling place in Philadelphia. The Panthers themselves stopped being an issue long ago; theMore…

Won’t Somebody Think of the White Men?

From the conservative Committee for Justice, a key player in judicial nomination fights, comes this reaction to the nominations of one Hispanic and one African-American judge to circuit court slots.

Does President Obama or his advisors believe that southern white men are likely to be bigoted, making them unfit

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