Adam Serwer

Adam Serwer

Adam Serwer is a former reporter at Mother Jones. Prior to working at Mother Jones, he was a staff writer at the American Prospect. Adam has written for the Washington Post, the Root, the Village Voice, and the New York Daily News. 

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Al Qaeda Gripes About Its Fanatical Internet Followers
Thu May. 3, 2012 9:40 AM PDT

On Bin Laden Killing, Ex-CIA Torture Chief Contradicted by…CIA
Wed May. 2, 2012 12:48 PM PDT

What Obama's Counterterrorism Chief Won't Say About Drone Strikes
Tue May. 1, 2012 10:25 AM PDT

Former CIA Official Seeking to Confirm Efficacy of Torture Does The Opposite
Mon Apr. 30, 2012 8:12 AM PDT

Does Rubio's "DREAM Act" Really Put Obama in a Box?
Thu Apr. 26, 2012 9:54 AM PDT

3 Things to Know About the Challenge to Arizona's Immigration Law
Tue Apr. 24, 2012 12:20 PM PDT

Pew: Liberal Media Not So Hot On Obama in 2012
Mon Apr. 23, 2012 8:55 AM PDT

Nugent NRA Video Removed From YouTube
Thu Apr. 19, 2012 10:18 AM PDT

Allen West's Communist Conspiracy Implicates Woodrow Wilson
Wed Apr. 18, 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Study: All-White Jury Pools More Likely To Convict Black Defendants (UPDATED)
Tue Apr. 17, 2012 12:15 PM PDT

GOP's Favorite Muslim Activist Under Fire From Muslim Groups
Fri Apr. 13, 2012 9:46 AM PDT

Survey: Jewish Voters Still Heart Obama
Tue Apr. 3, 2012 9:10 AM PDT

Game of Thrones: Come At the Hand of the King, You Best Not Miss
Fri Mar. 30, 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Obamacare's Day in Court: Good for Single Payer?
Thu Mar. 29, 2012 8:49 AM PDT

Will the Supreme Court Create Zombie Obamacare?
Wed Mar. 28, 2012 3:45 PM PDT

Obamacare's Supreme Court Disaster
Tue Mar. 27, 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Supreme Court Probably Won't Punt on Health Care
Mon Mar. 26, 2012 11:43 AM PDT

What the Supreme Court Could Do About Obamacare, Explained
Mon Mar. 26, 2012 12:08 AM PDT

The Right Goes Nuts Over Obama's Trayvon Comments
Fri Mar. 23, 2012 12:45 PM PDT

Beck's Website Calls Trayvon Martin "The Aggressor"
Wed Mar. 21, 2012 12:51 PM PDT

Al Qaeda's "Dog Food" Problem
Fri Mar. 16, 2012 1:10 PM PDT

Is Barack Obama A Murderous Sociopath? Wrong Question
Thu Mar. 15, 2012 7:55 AM PDT

Bipartisan Approval for Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists
Wed Mar. 14, 2012 9:46 AM PDT

Colbert On Targeted Killing: "Due Process Just Means There's A Process That You Do"
Wed Mar. 7, 2012 10:08 AM PST

Bloggingheads: Birth Control Edition
Tue Mar. 6, 2012 8:12 AM PST

When the US Government Can Kill You, Explained
Mon Mar. 5, 2012 3:07 PM PST

Limbaugh Not The Only Conservative Who Fails To Understand How Birth Control Works
Mon Mar. 5, 2012 1:16 PM PST

Dear Rush Limbaugh: Birth Control Doesn't Work Like Viagra
Fri Mar. 2, 2012 7:37 AM PST

See the Racist Email About Obama Sent by a Federal Judge
Thu Mar. 1, 2012 12:08 PM PST

Romney Didn't Know What the Blunt Amendment Was
Wed Feb. 29, 2012 4:30 PM PST

Obama (Mostly) Disregards Defense Authorization Bill's Military Custody Requirements
Wed Feb. 29, 2012 7:43 AM PST

Convicting Alleged Terrorists Is Hard When You Torture Them
Tue Feb. 28, 2012 7:43 AM PST

The PR Man Behind the Oscar Night Anti-Humane Society Slam
Tue Feb. 28, 2012 4:00 AM PST

Rick and Mitt Give Latinos a Reason to Turn Out for Obama in November
Thu Feb. 23, 2012 9:35 AM PST

Newt's National Security Demagoguery
Tue Feb. 21, 2012 9:27 AM PST

Could the Blunt Amendment Allow Employers to Block HIV Screening?
Fri Feb. 17, 2012 9:48 AM PST

Undie Bomber Gets Life
Thu Feb. 16, 2012 1:46 PM PST

DOJ Memo: We're Not Biased Against Conservatives
Tue Feb. 14, 2012 4:35 AM PST

The Closest Thing We've Got to an Awlaki Indictment
Mon Feb. 13, 2012 8:00 AM PST

White House Seeking "Compromise" On Birth Control
Fri Feb. 10, 2012 7:05 AM PST

House Dems Blast Gitmo "Reengagement" Report
Thu Feb. 9, 2012 11:00 AM PST

Second White Nationalist Appearing At CPAC
Thu Feb. 9, 2012 9:25 AM PST

Poll: Americans Approve Of Targeted Killing Of American Terror Suspects
Wed Feb. 8, 2012 7:59 AM PST

Court: Prop 8 Is Unconstitutional
Tue Feb. 7, 2012 12:42 PM PST

The NYPD's Muslim Profiling Problem Gets Worse
Mon Feb. 6, 2012 8:05 AM PST

What Does Komen's Latest Statement on Planned Parenthood Really Mean?
Fri Feb. 3, 2012 10:27 AM PST

Conservative Super-PACs Make It Rain
Fri Feb. 3, 2012 4:00 AM PST

Komen's $7.5 Million Grant to Penn State Appears to Violate New Policy
Thu Feb. 2, 2012 1:56 PM PST

ACLU Wants Obama To Release Targeted Killing Records
Wed Feb. 1, 2012 1:12 PM PST

Rove's Haul: $12 Million
Wed Feb. 1, 2012 8:46 AM PST

BioShock Infinite: An American History Lesson Where You Get to Blow Shit Up

Video game visionary Ken Levine on the nerd mainstream, screen violence, and mining the past for narrative.

Fri May. 10, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Conservative Immigration Scholar: Black and Hispanic Immigrants Are Dumber Than European Immigrants

Jason Richwine, who coauthored a Heritage Foundation study on immigration, didn't just argue that certain minorities are dumber in his scholarship—he also said it at a public panel.

Wed May. 8, 2013 4:50 PM PDT

Feds Arrest 3 New Suspects in Connection With Boston Bombings

Two college students are charged with removing evidence from an alleged bomber's room; another is charged with making false statements.

Wed May. 1, 2013 9:16 AM PDT

Can Obama Stop the Uprising at Gitmo?

Human rights advocates and now even one senator says the administration could end the hunger strike by resuming transfers of detainees out of Gitmo.

Tue Apr. 30, 2013 8:09 AM PDT

Charts: Are the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisks Violating the Constitution?

As New York City defends its controversial policing policy in court, here's what you need to know.

Mon Apr. 29, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

24-Hour Shifts and Deportation Threats: The World of US Guest Workers

The Senate immigration bill is supposed to fix a program plagued by abuses. But is a new visa category enough?

Thu Apr. 25, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

What These Tweets Tell Us About Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

They include statements about Islam, observations on pop culture, a boast about beer pong, and trash talk about women.

Fri Apr. 19, 2013 11:10 AM PDT

Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Charged With Using WMD

Boston returns to normal as bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged.

Thu Apr. 18, 2013 2:39 PM PDT

Not Every Republican Hates Obama's Progressive Labor Secretary Nominee

Thomas Perez, the head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, has won support from some unlikely places.

Thu Apr. 18, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Arab American on Boston Marathon: "Everyone in This Room Is Holding Their Breath"

The catch-22 of Monday's bombing weighed heavily at an Arab American gala in Washington on Tuesday night.

Wed Apr. 17, 2013 11:25 AM PDT

The Government Didn't Shut Down Cell Service in Boston. But With SOP 303, It Could Have.

Wed Apr. 17, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

The Gitmo Hunger Strike May Be the Biggest Act of Civil Disobedience in the Camp's History

Nearly half a decade after the president vowed to close the prison, 166 men are still detained there.

Wed Apr. 17, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Bitcoin, Explained

Everything you need to know about the new electronic currency.

Wed Apr. 10, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Whatever Happened to the Obama Administration's Review of NYPD Spying?

A year ago, Attorney General Eric Holder promised Congress the Justice Department would consider investigating the NYPD's spying on Muslims. Since then, crickets.

Thu Apr. 4, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Game of Thrones' Lionesses of Winter

Forget "sexposition." In Season 3, the GOT writers have put the women of the Seven Kingdoms on top.

Sun Mar. 31, 2013 8:50 AM PDT

MIA at the Supreme Court: DOMA Lawyer's Most Homophobic Arguments

The attorney supporting the Defense of Marriage Act never made his most controversial arguments—a sign that the anti-gay forces can't defend their own rhetoric.

Fri Mar. 29, 2013 8:13 AM PDT

Here Are the 7 Worst Things Antonin Scalia Has Said or Written About Homosexuality

This week the Supreme Court will hear arguments about equal rights for gay Americans. But we already know what Scalia thinks.

Tue Mar. 26, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

The GOP Wants to Use This Bizarre Case to Scuttle Obama's Most Progressive Cabinet Nominee

Inside the case that made conservatives hate Thomas Perez.

Fri Mar. 22, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Shocker: Civil Rights Agency Did Not Discriminate Against Conservatives, Whites

But even so, Republicans will find some ammo in a new report on the Justice Department's civil rights division.

Wed Mar. 13, 2013 8:03 AM PDT

A Labor Secretary Pick Progressives Will Love—and Republicans Will Hate

Thomas Perez, Obama's pick for the post, boasts an aggressive record on civil rights—which is why Republicans will try to stop him.

Tue Mar. 12, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Supreme Court Poised to Declare Racism Over

Conservative justices on the high court look set to scrap a key part of the Voting Rights Act.

Wed Feb. 27, 2013 12:48 PM PST

Chief Justice Roberts' Long War Against the Voting Rights Act

Roberts has been a critic of the Voting Rights Act for 30 years. Now he will help decide whether the law's most important section lives or dies.

Wed Feb. 27, 2013 4:01 AM PST

5 Questions John Brennan Dodged in His CIA Confirmation Hearing

President Obama's nominee for CIA chief knows his way around an interrogation.

Thu Feb. 7, 2013 4:57 PM PST

Hardliners Killed Bush's Immigration Reform. Can They Stop Obama's?

"No military plan survives contact with the enemy," warns one anti-immigration activist.

Thu Jan. 31, 2013 4:01 AM PST

The Rubio Immigration Plan Conservatives Love Looks a Lot Like Obama's

The GOP senator proposes Obama's immigration reform plan; conservatives melt.

Tue Jan. 15, 2013 1:59 PM PST

14 Ways Obama Can Push Gun Control Without Congress

Forget the House of Representatives. Here’s what the White House can do right now.

Mon Jan. 14, 2013 4:06 AM PST

The GOP's Anti-Muslim Wing Is in Retreat

Why Republicans finally seem to be distancing themselves from the Muslim-bashers in their midst.

Thu Jan. 3, 2013 4:06 AM PST

Abortion-Rights Groups: Hagel's Views Not a Dealbreaker for Pentagon Post

The Republican ex-senator, who Obama is reportedly considering nominating as Secretary of Defense, repeatedly voted to deny American servicewomen access to abortion.

Fri Dec. 28, 2012 2:09 PM PST

Defense Bill Includes Broadened Version of Todd Akin's Anti-Gay Provision

"It's going to generate endless issues," one expert warns.

Thu Dec. 20, 2012 4:06 AM PST

Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin Now Going After Gay Troops

The controversial congressman, who lost a Senate race in November after explaining how victims of "legitimate rape" don't get pregnant, is going out with a bang.

Tue Dec. 18, 2012 7:50 AM PST

Why Your Kindle Is an Open Book to the Government

Before you buy that e-reader as a Chistmas or Hannukah present, read this.

Fri Dec. 14, 2012 7:22 AM PST

A Plan to Stop the Feds From Reading Your Emails

Four lawmakers are trying to put a stop to warrantless spying.

Tue Dec. 11, 2012 7:51 AM PST

Susan Rice: A Victim of GOP Hypocrisy?

Senate Republicans had two very different reactions to administration officials named Rice who were accused of misleading the public.

Thu Dec. 6, 2012 4:13 AM PST

Will Congress Protect Your Inbox From Warrantless Snooping?

The Senate takes up a major privacy bill that will decide whether the government needs to meet the same standard to scour your Gmail account as it does to search your underwear drawer.

Wed Nov. 28, 2012 8:02 AM PST

The Real Reason You Should Care About the Petraeus Affair: Privacy

If the CIA director couldn't keep his emails secret, neither can you.

Thu Nov. 15, 2012 4:03 AM PST