Month: February 2018
This is the grave of Susan Komen. There isn’t that much to say about Komen herself. She was born in 1943 and died of breast cancer in 1980 at the age of 36, three years after her diagnosis. That
A radiologist describes what she found examining victims Marjory Stoneman Douglas: In a typical handgun injury that I diagnose almost daily, a bullet leaves a laceration through an organ like the live
The NRA exists to increase the profits of America’s gun makers. It does so by constantly stimulating the market for guns, which, as in the case of so many other consumer goods, is dominated by t
Walter Johnson is one of our premier historians, period. His work on slavery and capitalism has helped reorient a narrative that for way, way too long argued that slavery was anti-capitalist, leading
I’ve been blown away by the instant move toward activism and organizing by the Florida shooting survivors. Me, I’d probably be a blubbering wreck curled up in the corner of my bedroom. The
This is a great point by E.J. Dionne, presumably in response to David Brooks’s silly concern trolling: What’s less funny is that on gun control, liberals (and their many allies who are moderat
Yglesias observes that the “nothing to see here” argument on Trump/Russia is far more convoluted and implausible than the alternative: Paul Manafort left his job working as the Kremlin’s
The Pennsylvania courts, as you know, are requiring the state to use an electoral map that slightly favors Republicans rather than one that massively overrepresents them. The Republican response has b
- Well don’t trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer
- LGM Film Club, Part 73: You Are On Indian Land
- George Atiyeh
- E Pluribus Something
- Donald Trump with a law degree
- Trump’s COVID catastrophe
- Big 10 Conference: Nothing is more important to us than the welfare of our serfs
- This Day in Labor History: September 16, 2004
- The man who wanted to be on TV
- Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln