http://emilybazelon.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/05/21/deadwood_here_was_a_man_will_hook_you_on_the_great_hbo_western.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/05/21/deadwood_here_was_a_man_will_hook_you_on_the_great_hbo_western.html#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:00 +0000 Emily Bazelon http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/05/21/deadwood_here_was_a_man_will_hook_you_on_the_great_hbo_western.html Summer is right around the corner—the perfect time to catch up with a few of those shows everyone is always saying you should watch. But there are so many! How can you decide which to try? Pilot episodes have so much introductory work to do; they’re usually subpar compared with the great stuff to come. And the very best episodes of a series often demand too much knowledge of what came before.

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]]> http://emilybazelon.com/gateway-episodes-deadwood/feed/ 0 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/im/2013/05/the_government_s_probe_of_the_ap_phone_records_scary_or_justified.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/im/2013/05/the_government_s_probe_of_the_ap_phone_records_scary_or_justified.html#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 17:52:32 +0000 Emily Bazelon http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/im/2013/05/the_government_s_probe_of_the_ap_phone_records_scary_or_justified.html In the wake of the story this week that the Justice Department scooped up two months’ worth of the phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press, University of Chicago law professor and Slate contributor Eric Posner and Slate senior editor Emily Bazelon have been arguing over whether this is an overreach by the Department of Justice and an intrusion on the newsgathering function of the press (Emily), or an entirely justified effort to find and prosecute a scurrilous government leaker who imperiled the country’s counterterrorism operation in Yemen (Eric). Here’s an edited version of their exchange:

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// Continue Reading...]]> In the wake of the story this week that the Justice Department scooped up two months’ worth of the phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press, University of Chicago law professor and Slate contributor Eric Posner and Slate senior editor Emily Bazelon have been arguing over whether this is an overreach by the Department of Justice and an intrusion on the newsgathering function of the press (Emily), or an entirely justified effort to find and prosecute a scurrilous government leaker who imperiled the country’s counterterrorism operation in Yemen (Eric). Here’s an edited version of their exchange:

]]> http://emilybazelon.com/secrets-and-scoops/feed/ 0 http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest/2013/05/irs_scandal_ap_scandal_benghazi_scandal_and_kermit_gosnell_on_the_gabfest.html http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest/2013/05/irs_scandal_ap_scandal_benghazi_scandal_and_kermit_gosnell_on_the_gabfest.html#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:03 +0000 Emily Bazelon http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest/2013/05/irs_scandal_ap_scandal_benghazi_scandal_and_kermit_gosnell_on_the_gabfest.html // Continue Reading...]]> Become a fan of the Political Gabfest on Facebook. We post to the Facebook page throughout the week, so keep the conversation going by joining us there. Or follow us @SlateGabfest!

]]> http://emilybazelon.com/the-barack-obama-is-richard-nixon-gabfest/feed/ 0 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/05/obama_s_justice_department_holder_s_leak_investigations_are_outrageous_and.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/05/obama_s_justice_department_holder_s_leak_investigations_are_outrageous_and.html#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 22:32:33 +0000 Emily Bazelon http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/05/obama_s_justice_department_holder_s_leak_investigations_are_outrageous_and.html Attorney General Eric Holder has said that he doesn’t want the Obama administration’s leak prosecutions “to be his legacy.” But he has also trumpeted the cases—six and counting—in response to criticism from Senate Republicans. “We have tried more leak cases—brought more leak cases during the course of this administration than any other administration,” Holder said before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year.

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// Continue Reading...]]> Attorney General Eric Holder has said that he doesn’t want the Obama administration’s leak prosecutions “to be his legacy.” But he has also trumpeted the cases—six and counting—in response to criticism from Senate Republicans. “We have tried more leak cases—brought more leak cases during the course of this administration than any other administration,” Holder said before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year.

]]> http://emilybazelon.com/obamas-war-on-journalists/feed/ 0 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/05/justice_ginsburg_and_roe_v_wade_caution_for_gay_marriage.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/05/justice_ginsburg_and_roe_v_wade_caution_for_gay_marriage.html#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 19:08:00 +0000 Emily Bazelon http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/05/justice_ginsburg_and_roe_v_wade_caution_for_gay_marriage.html Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doubled down over the weekend on her ongoing criticism of Roe v. Wade. Ginsburg’s concern is about backlash: She says that by issuing the ruling that legalized abortion across the country in 1973, a group of “unelected old men” stopped the momentum that was building among the states. "That was my concern, that the court had given opponents of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly," she said at the University of Chicago Law School. "My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum that was on the side of change."

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// Continue Reading...]]> Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doubled down over the weekend on her ongoing criticism of Roe v. Wade. Ginsburg’s concern is about backlash: She says that by issuing the ruling that legalized abortion across the country in 1973, a group of “unelected old men” stopped the momentum that was building among the states. "That was my concern, that the court had given opponents of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly," she said at the University of Chicago Law School. "My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum that was on the side of change."

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