As Elena Kagan’s Confirmation Hearing Approaches, We’re Reminded of John Roberts’s Promise to Be an Umpire Calling Balls and Strikes As Elena Kagan’s Confirmation Hearing Approaches, We’re Reminded of John Roberts’s Promise to Be an Umpire Calling Balls and Strikes
It's a shifty strike zone.
May 20, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
She-Lawyers and Other Improbable Creatures She-Lawyers and Other Improbable Creatures
We're not anxious about whether Elena Kagan is gay. We're anxious about whether she's masculine.
May 20, 2010 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Ain’t That America… Ain’t That America…
"Real America" is nothing more than a state of mind.
May 20, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman
Britain Braces for the Shocks to Come Britain Braces for the Shocks to Come
The Tories want to make budget cuts fast and deep.
May 13, 2010 / Column / Gary Younge
Believing in Justice, Blaming the Victim Believing in Justice, Blaming the Victim
Those who most strongly believe that the world is fair are most likely to reconcile their distress about unearned suffering by blaming the victims.
May 13, 2010 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry
What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers? What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers?
If the boom years failed to lift poor mothers into the middle class, how are they faring now that the middle class is becoming the new poor?
May 13, 2010 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Sad Tale of Gordon Brown, Starting With
 the First Debate The Sad Tale of Gordon Brown, Starting With
 the First Debate
The man doesn't smile.
May 13, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
On the Gulf Oil Spill On the Gulf Oil Spill
Enough to make you ill.
May 5, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Party Every Day Party Every Day
Fox News is getting ever more brazen in its refusal to distinguish between journalist and politician—but so is everyone else.
May 5, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman
A Bipartisan Memo From Congress to Wall Street A Bipartisan Memo From Congress to Wall Street
Our elected representatives know who pays the bills.
Apr 29, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin