ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Newt Gingrich resorted to that weapon in his determination to win the South Carolina primaries. The story began last Monday night at t...

One of the really big gag jokes in American politics is the Republican Party as the Values Party. You know, Hitler had values. Everyone h...

Lindsey Beyerstein sums up the issues well: The Obama administration has rebuffed the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other relig...

This is a peach! A story about a UK Member of the Parliament wanting teenaged girls, and only girls , to have extra sex education over an...

HERE. It's dedicated to me! Thank you so much, Spay.

That Republican presidential primaries are now on almost every night makes them into a television program. And the closest equivalent are ...

This Guttmacher report on global abortion trends. The budget rumors . Liberals and progressives are forewarned that they won't like...

I have written quite a bit about Caitlin Flanagan and her opinions in the past, perhaps too much. But to understand her most recent argume...

Apropos of my post concerning what opposing abortion (and even contraception) and opposing same-sex marriage have in common: I argued ...

He is telling his own story about what it is like to have good health insurance in the US. Or one tiny aspect of that experience, but I b...

The petition to recall Governor Scott Walker is going pretty well : Organizers of the petition drive to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Wa...

The brouhaha over recent articles on Ron Paul and his possible progressive values has intensified. As I wrote below in a comment, the brou...

Atrios wrote this on Monday (in reference to this Pandagon post): As I've [ stated ] before, I get why people oppose abortion but r...

Echidne's note: Earlier parts of this series can be found here: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 , Part ...

I view Salon lawyer/blogger Glenn Greenwald the way I do Ron Paul: They have some interesting views, but I don't want to enhance their c...

A video of a women's volleyball game in China. Do watch it, even if you don't like volleyball.

About the morality police : Saudi Arabia's king replaced the hard-line chief of the country's morality police with a more liberal ...

That's the question Arthur Brisbane, the New York Times public editor posed today. It has to do with the responsibilities reporters...

The rights to religious freedom often clash with various types of human rights. The most obvious example of this in the United States is W...

I asked the awesome stats wizard Andrew Gelman to comment on the Mars/Venus study and he was kind enough to do so. His post gives answers...