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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The Weekly Standard Doesn't Get That "Friend" And "Policy Adviser" Aren't The Same Thing
Tue Nov. 1, 2011 3:17 PM PDT

When Does A Lynching Matter? When It's "High-Tech."
Tue Nov. 1, 2011 7:10 AM PDT

NRO Fumbles Its Defense Of Walid Phares
Mon Oct. 31, 2011 2:53 PM PDT

Third American Suicide Bomber Ever Dies In Mogadishu Attack
Mon Oct. 31, 2011 9:00 AM PDT

Responding to Ben Smith on Lebanon's Civil War
Fri Oct. 28, 2011 1:00 PM PDT

The War Over Walid Phares' Wikipedia Page
Thu Oct. 27, 2011 10:20 AM PDT

The Ethnic Revenge Flick
Thu Oct. 27, 2011 8:35 AM PDT

The Great Libya-Shariah Freakout of 2011
Tue Oct. 25, 2011 9:24 AM PDT

Libyan TNC Chairman: We're Investigating Gaddafi's Death
Mon Oct. 24, 2011 10:30 AM PDT

Senate Dems: Mandatory Military Detention Is "Dangerous"
Mon Oct. 24, 2011 8:28 AM PDT

Senate "Compromise" On Domestic Military Detention Deteriorating
Fri Oct. 21, 2011 2:13 PM PDT

ACLU: FBI Guilty of Massive Racial Profiling Operations
Fri Oct. 21, 2011 10:37 AM PDT

Libya's Moammar Qaddafi Is Dead
Thu Oct. 20, 2011 7:45 AM PDT

Knowing Nothing About Foreign Policy Finally Gets Cain In Trouble
Wed Oct. 19, 2011 9:30 AM PDT

Is Obama Keeping His Promise to Reprioritize Deportations?
Tue Oct. 18, 2011 2:15 PM PDT

Open-Borders Obama Sets New Deportation Record
Tue Oct. 18, 2011 1:23 PM PDT

Anti-Immigration Think-Tank Slams Herman Cain
Tue Oct. 18, 2011 3:50 AM PDT

How to Talk About Immigration Like a GOP Front-Runner
Mon Oct. 17, 2011 8:49 AM PDT

Limbaugh Thinks Obama Wants To "Kill Christians"
Mon Oct. 17, 2011 7:27 AM PDT

4 Things You Need to Know About the Iran Bomb Plot
Wed Oct. 12, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

Rep. McKeon's Culture War
Tue Oct. 11, 2011 9:05 AM PDT

Conservative Pundit Says, "Get a Job Hippies!"
Tue Oct. 11, 2011 8:01 AM PDT

NY City Councilman Says Feds Should Provide NYPD Counterterrorism Oversight (UPDATED)
Tue Oct. 11, 2011 2:59 AM PDT

ACTUAL Death Panel Approves US Kill List
Thu Oct. 6, 2011 7:11 AM PDT

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman: Release Awlaki Memo
Tue Oct. 4, 2011 3:10 PM PDT

Former FBI Interrogator: Cheney Owes Obama an Apology
Tue Oct. 4, 2011 1:42 PM PDT

Contrite Cain Now Says Perry Sign "Doesn't Matter"
Tue Oct. 4, 2011 8:40 AM PDT

GOP, ALEC Could Make It Harder For 5 Million To Cast Ballots
Mon Oct. 3, 2011 2:36 PM PDT

Obama's Dangerous Awlaki Precedent
Fri Sep. 30, 2011 9:55 AM PDT

US Kills Al Qaeda-Linked Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki
Fri Sep. 30, 2011 7:11 AM PDT

Why You Shouldn't Take Notes on Terrorist Plots
Thu Sep. 29, 2011 5:05 PM PDT

Obama, Rule Of Law Guy
Thu Sep. 29, 2011 12:07 PM PDT

Charges Referred Against Alleged U.S.S. Cole Bomber
Wed Sep. 28, 2011 3:41 PM PDT

Why Did Christie Hit Perry On Immigration?
Wed Sep. 28, 2011 7:04 AM PDT

The "Sanctity" Of Marriage: Priceless
Tue Sep. 27, 2011 6:15 AM PDT

Why Immigration Is Hurting Perry
Mon Sep. 26, 2011 2:15 PM PDT

60 Minutes Hearts NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly
Mon Sep. 26, 2011 8:15 AM PDT

DOJ: Texas Redistricting Discriminatory
Mon Sep. 26, 2011 6:24 AM PDT

Plaintiff In Anti-DADT Case Slams Santorum
Fri Sep. 23, 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Perry Wants To "Mate Up" Gingrich and Cain
Fri Sep. 23, 2011 9:28 AM PDT

Bachmann: I'm Not Responsible For The Words Coming Out Of My Mouth
Fri Sep. 23, 2011 8:53 AM PDT

Perry Defends In-State Tuition For Undocumented Immigrants
Thu Sep. 22, 2011 7:19 PM PDT

Expanding The Drone War In Somalia
Thu Sep. 22, 2011 2:30 PM PDT

USCIS Reaches 10,000 U-Visa Limit
Wed Sep. 21, 2011 12:27 PM PDT

FBI: Okay, Fine, We'll Do Something About That Anti-Muslim Training
Wed Sep. 21, 2011 10:45 AM PDT

How Effective Is The TSA's Behavior Detection Program?
Wed Sep. 21, 2011 9:50 AM PDT

Republicans To Fed: Don't Help The Economy—Or Else!
Wed Sep. 21, 2011 6:56 AM PDT

It's Official: Obama Has Deported More Than A Million Unauthorized Immigrants
Tue Sep. 20, 2011 11:37 AM PDT

Holder: We're Still Trying To Close Gitmo
Tue Sep. 20, 2011 9:15 AM PDT

Georgia Parole Board Denies Clemency for Troy Davis
Tue Sep. 20, 2011 6:35 AM PDT

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