Sonia Sotomayor
Newsmakers of the week
Sonia Sotomayor hits Sesame Street, Robert Mugabe is the new Cecil Rhodes, plus a king-in-not-waiting
That awkward “lesbian question”
Andrew Sullivan isn’t winning a lot of friends by challenging Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on her sexual orientation
She’s just so mainstream
A Supreme Court nominee brushes off ethnicity and gender
What price our pseudo-empathy?
In a world of imponderables, some old-fashioned detachment might serve us better
Obama goes against conventional wisdom
Is the President’s new Supreme Court pick a dig at the media?