Freedom Summer was 50 years ago this year and its anniversary has been pretty underreported. Anyway, this is an interesting piece from one of the white organizers about the relationship between organizing civil rights workers and union organizing in Mississippi. Obviously, biracial unionism did not exactly...
My latest at WiB looks at a proposal to ditch the Air Force from 1982: In 1982 John Byron—then a Navy commander and submarine skipper—argued that the United States should.
For those that missed it yesterday, I have a piece up about Halbig v. Burwell. The bottom line: The sole dissenting judge, Harry Edwards, in his tour de force dissent,.
Robert E. Lee was a kind slavemaster, certainly not the type of man who represents all that was inhumane about the Confederacy: Lee married into ownership of nearly 200 slaves at Arlington and adjoining properties. Pryor forthrightly confronts this side of Lee’s life; he disliked slavery...
I know I am supposed to be all doom and gloom all the time. But that's only true 99% of the time. Sometimes there are victories. Such as the concession.
John C. Wright is 54-years-old, which is why it is remarkable that everything he writes reads as if it were posted by a 14-year-old on 4Chan. With a well-thumbed Thesaurus..
In August 2013, word came out about a luxury development on the Upper West Side with a few affordable housing units where the developer wanted to force the occupants of those units to go through a separate "poor door." New York has now approved the development,...
My dismay toward President Obama's decisions to open the ocean off the east coast to oil drilling cannot be overstated. This is a terrible decision that is in line with.
I will have more on this, but two Republican hacks at the D.C. Circuit have embarrassed themselves by accepting a particularly bad statutory argument that would throw the exchanges into chaos..
Concealment. This is primary benefit of outsourcing work and supplies from the United States. That goods are produced far, far away from the eyes of consumers benefits the corporations tremendously. It means that when the Rana Plaza factory in Savar, Bangladesh collapses, no Americans see the...
The murder of Dan Markel triggered a memory: On April 4, 1991, Mary Joe Frug was hacked to death with a seven-inch military-style knife, a couple of blocks from the.
Should businesses who pay atrocious wages, just offloading the responsibility to keep people fed and clothed onto the state, be taxed to make up for it? Can you name the.