Month: May 2020
Cases are growing by 2 to 4 percent daily, and more than 1,000 people have died each day for over a month. At least 15 children in New York were hospitalized with an illness scientists worry might be
How are Trump Admin’s plans for a peaceful transfer of power in Venezuela going? Oops. Oh well, probably nothing! Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says two American “mercenaries”
This will be the third genocide Trump has overseen since he began his presidency. That is if you count his treatment of refugees at the border. (I do.) And his sociopathic disregard of Puerto Ricans d
My good friend Joe Sonka and the rest of the breaking news team at the Louisville Courier-Journal have won a Pulitzer for their coverage of Matt Bevin’s flurry of pardons in the final days of hi
It’s worth noting that the completely unqualified kooks and crackpots driving Trump’s pandemic response are kooks and crackpots who…are members of the Republican establishment in fin
Does the almost surreally incompetent American president presiding over a dysfunctional political system really matter to handling of the pandemic? Yes: Per capita, the United States is currently seei
California is a very progressive state. But it’s also kind of disaster, especially with its awful NIMBY politics leading to skyrocketing housing prices and skyrocketing homelessness that makes t
A few months ago, I gave my law students a quick quiz, which you can take yourself if you want (I emphasized to them it was anonymous and therefore not subject to grading, in case you’re wonderi
- 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