July 19: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk
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John Glenn remembers Walter Cronkite, Senators Leahy and Sessions go toe-to-toe on Sotomayor, and one pundit declares herself a "wise white woman." That and more in our Sunday roundup
Sonia Scores a KO
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.
Not even the roughest-and most leading-questions from the GOP peanut gallery could derail Obama's Supreme Court nominee Tuesday. As Scott Horton argues, she's cruising toward confirmation.
Yes, It's All About Race
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
As conservatives call Sonia Sotomayor an "activist" judge Tuesday, you should remember one thing, Matthew Yglesias writes. Conservatives love activist judges. They just prefer when they advance the interests of white people.
19 Best Moments from Sonia's Hearing
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Sonia Sotomayor's second day on Capitol Hill finally brought some contentious back-and-forth. Watch our roundup of the highlights of the hearings so far.
July 12: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
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Democrats including Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin slam Dick Cheney for allegedly duping Congress, Howard Kurtz revisits Obama's controversial glance, and guess who's still defending Sarah Palin?
Sotomayor Overruled
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The Supreme Court's overturning of a decision endorsed by Obama's nominee revives a debate over empathy in judging-but do her right-wing critics make an exception for white litigants?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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