There is a bad argument for the proposition that Roe was secretly bad for abortion rights that runs something like this: abortion was going to be quickly legalized almost everywhere anyway, so by jumping the gun the Supreme Court created intense opposition for no real...
General
Antonin Scalia, as Antonin Scalia will be the first person to tell you, does not let his social conservatism affect his jurisprudence. It's just that the equal protection 14th Amendment.
Mike Elk has a very disturbing story about Patriot Coal, a spinoff of industry giant Peabody Coal, going to bankruptcy court to divest itself of the pension and healthcare obligations.
"Plus Electrification" from 1972 Awesome stuff. On the other hand, propaganda about electrification was relevant in the Soviet Union in 1972.
It is so fitting that Vladimir Lenin would be a huge proponent of the theremin. See here and here. If there's one thing Lenin loved, it was Good Vibrations. Technically,.
This is a pretty amazing story of the discovery of a mass grave of Irish laborers who died in the 1832 cholera epidemic. Basically, the Irish found whatever jobs they.
I haven't shared a student's RIP project in a while, so I feel I should remind you of what they are: The final assignment of my visual rhetoric course is called Rhetoric in Practice (or RIP). It has two components. To paraphrase the rubric: the...
Longtime readers will know that the issues discussed by Liptak here are some of my longest-standing hobbyhorses. I won't repeat my arguments in full, but a few comments with links.
Glenn Greenwald is a profoundly dishonest person. In his article today, entitled "The Racism that Fuels the War on Terror," Greenwald uses me as an example of someone who gives.
Who are the real friends of coal miners? Like in the timber wars of the 1980s, an exploitative industry and its lackey politicians have claimed that the industry looks out for the miners against those evil environmentalists, while at the same time engaging in land...
The author of the landmarks Gideon's Trumpet and Make No Law, as well as a superb reporter and commentator on the Supreme Court, has passed away. I met him very.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about the ongoing success of Republican attempts to keep qualified nominees off of the D.C. Circuit: That a mainstream Democratic nominee can't.