Rush Limbaugh on Sotomayor: A New Low?

• Red Scare, Black Scare

  Sex & Sexuality

  JoAnn Wypijewski: The birthers, the anticommunist crazies, the "Obama as Witch Doctor" caricatures: they're all of a piece, welded to sex.

• LA Clippers Owner Pays Out for Race-Based Housing Discrimination

  Sports

  Dave Zirin: Donald Sterling was just obligated to pay out the largest settlement ever obtained by the government in a housing discrimination case involving apartment rentals.

• Putting Caste on Notice

  United Nations

  Barbara Crossette: Navi Pillay is the first UN human rights commissioner to take on caste discrimination.

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• Abortion Battle Puts Health Reform at Risk

  Health Care Policy

  Countdown : Nation editor Christopher Hayes is "infuriated" by the last-minute add-on that prohibits coverage for abortion in the House health plan.

• Olbermann on Going Rouge

  Conservatives & The American Right

  Countdown : Keith Olbermann weighs in on the Sarah Palin "companion" book Going Rouge, edited by Nation staffers Betsy Reed and Richard Kim.

• Right-Wing Ponders Overthrow of Obama

  Conservatives & The American Right

  Countdown : The Nation's Christopher Hayes weighs in on of the recent "treasonous rhetoric from the right" and the danger that it could lead to real violence.