James Forman, Jr. has a piece up in the forthcoming N.Y.U. Law Review attacking the analogies made between high rates of incarceration and Jim Crow. From the abstract: But despite its contributions, the Jim Crow analogy ultimately leads to a distorted view of mass incarceration....
Month: December 2011
"The only pattern here is that you have no facts!" What I especially like about this is that not only are perfectly accurate Democratic claims that House Republicans voting to.
In addition to the glaring factual errors, there's also his praise of the German social and economic system, which he's hoping you won't notice contradicts everything he has written before.
Newt Gingrich is an embrassment to the historical profession. Not only is he corrupt, but his dissertation defended Belgian rule of the Congo, which really sums up the man. He throws historical references around with abandon, but it's entirely unclear whether the gasbag knows what...
As Charlie Savage and Adam Serwer point out, the Senate yesterday decided to punt on the question of whether the executive can arbitrarily and indefinitely detain American citizens simply by.
Last night, I watched the Lee Atwater documentary, Boogie Man. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it very highly. I always knew Atwater was an awful human being, but.
When I heard that Jed Rakoff had rejected the deal between Citigroup and the SEC, my initial reaction was like Black and Wheeler's -- I'd be happy to see one of the banks that destroyed the world taken to trail rather than given a wrist-slap. ...
Shorter Bobo: Spain and Italy spent way too much time at the Applebee's salad bar. Seriously, I went to Spain and couldn't find a single place that charged more than.
Today we celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike. The Oakland general strike came out of the massive changes to the Bay Area during World War II. Hundreds.
Newt clarifies his comments from last week that poor students should replace janitors in schools. They shouldn't do all the work. Just jobs like cleaning the bathrooms. And doesn't this make sense? In the new Gilded Age, the poor need to learn to serve their...
Republicans aren't even trying to hide their voter suppression agenda. If it wasn't evil, I'd say it was refreshing that at least they aren't lying anymore.
Scott Walker using prison labor to decorate the Christmas tree (and in this administration, it ain't no holiday tree like here in Rhode Island) in the Wisconsin state capitol building..