Whenever I think of Mondale, which I admit is not really all that often, I wonder what could have been had a solid liberal like him had actually been able to defeat Reagan in 1984. I remain determined that the "Dems lost three elections in a...
For some reason I'm fascinated by this recent survey of people's perception of states. I'm not surprised that the most popular state among Republicans is Florida -- the number of.
Turns out narwhal tusks are a bit like trees in that they can tell us a lot of data over a significant period of time. Of course, they certainly aren't.
DENVER, CO - MAY 30: Braxton Robertson pleads with the police during a protest after the killing of George Floyd – the Minneapolis man, who was killed by an officer, while being detained – in downtown Denver on Saturday, May 30, 2020. Thousands gathered to protest...
This is a pretty limited story at Forbes, but these are useful graphs from a study that shows that income inequality will have negative health effects for Americans at rates.
The West Virginia energy industry is a gift that truly keeps on giving. This is just ridiculous. In September 2020, West Virginia’s chief utility regulator told the state’s natural gas.
Stephen Vladeck has an excellent piece on the Roberts Court's abuse of the shadow docket, particularly using it to create a radical new free exercise doctrine without even bothering with anything resembling an adequate justification: For decades, the Supreme Court has insisted that these emergency injunctions...
On the latest LGM podcast I spoke with Joshua Douglas of the UK College of Law about election and voter suppression issues. We open with a recap of the 2020.
This is the grave of Allard Lowenstein. Born in 1929 in Newark, Lowenstein grew up in a Jewish immigrant family in the time and place so memorably written about by.
While in America authoritarian-minded leaders have generally erred in the opposite direction, Doug Ford has shown what could happen if a reactionary got to use COVID as a pretext for crackdowns: Ford opened by blaming the federal government for not providing the province with sufficient vaccine...
Since we started the day off with Frederick Winslow Taylor, it only makes sense to close it out with the greatest manifestation of Taylorism ever placed on the screen, which.
As part of the mental project by Americans to assume that most of us, especially those who were in the north, didn't really approve of the slave trade, we've painted.