I have a piece about the execution of Troy Davis which echoes a lot of the points in Paul's superb post below. The really frightening thing about the case is.
The execution of Troy Davis says some things about our legal system which apply to lots of issues beyond the debate over the death penalty. I had some (very tangential).
Yes, I'd have to say that the primary responsibility for the pending execution of Troy Davis rests with Barack Obama. Article II clearly establishes the president's power to commute death.
There's a fascinating article up at History News Network calling for us to rethink our traditional narrative of party shifts in the mid-twentieth century, arguing that it was not the.
...while the prison waits for the Supreme Court to consider a stay request. It's hard to imagine this being anything but very temporary, but never give up hope I guess..
This won't be surprising to longtime readers, but I agree with Dargis in almost every detail here. Plenty of great art has been made by extremely odious human beings and.
If there's a choice to be made between reducing grotesquely high unemployment and doing nothing in order to improve our political fortunes, the Federal Reserve must do the latter.
This week's WPR column thinks about the pursuit of "strategic paralysis" in context of James Scott's discussion of High Modernism in Seeing Like a State: As a doctrine, network centric.
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