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Join NOW!Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick took a year off to live with her family in Israel and work on a book about the US Supreme Court. Then the current conflict started. She writes about her experience in a piece titled “I Didn’t Come Back to Jerusalem To Be in a War”:
...moreCall me a Philistine, but I felt Howard Zinn’s death way more than J.D. Salinger’s. Here’s some links for your Saturday morning. Dahlia Lithwick examines the contradictions and contortions KBR is going through to keep Jamie Leigh Jones from having her day in court–including going to court over it. Louisiana Senator David Vitter dares the […]
...moreIn her scathing piece for Slate about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Dahlia Lithwick compares the Supreme Court’s actions to those of the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio, saying that they turned “a corporation into a real live boy.” Lithwick doesn’t try to peer into the future (like Greg Palast does), but she does highlight […]
...moreNot enough sleep? Echoes of a faint hangover? Then it’s time for Saturday Morning Links. Dahlia Lithwick and Doug Kendall point out that conservative politicians who are upset about empathetic judges probably ought to stick a sock in it. Whether you’re an academic or a free-lance writer, you might want to take a look at […]
...moreToilet-shaped plates with food presented as excrement. Sweet! Ever find yourself at a diner at three in the morning, the drunk hungries kicking your ass and your waffle/hash brown/extra bacon combo is taking forever? Make your own ice cream from half and half and ice water. Here’s a great (if old, in web-time) conversation between […]
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