Tag: citizens united

“I absolutely think First Amendment law has shifted from protecting dissenters and socially marginal speakers to protecting powerful and wealthy speakers”: A discussion with law professor Gregory P. Magarian about the First Amendment and the recent events at Indiana University

By Elizabeth Nelson

In General

On November 22, 2019

This past week I became intrigued and not a little bit concerned about a news story involving a faculty member at Indiana University, where I did my graduate work. It seems that a tenured professor of the business school named Eric Rasmusen is a degenerate of the worst sort, one who regularly tweets racist, homophobic […]

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Russian 2016 Electoral Interference Was Just Proof of Concept

By Dan Nexon

On July 17, 2018

In yesterday’s post about Trump-Russia, I suggested that Americans, in general, need to update their baseline assumption “that international affairs happen ‘externally’ and affect camp

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The New Gilded Age

By Erik Loomis

On January 23, 2015

The historian Richard White, author of one of the delightfully angriest books of history in recent years, demonstrates some of the ways we have created a New Gilded Age, in particular around the issue

A Little Story About an Ancient Montana Plutocrat

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 25, 2012

A long, long time ago (the Gilded Age) in a land far, far away known as Montana there was a man named William Clark. Not the Lewis & Clark guy but instead a mining capitalist. Born in Pennsylvania in 1839, he followed his family to Iowa as a teenager and then went to the Colorado […]

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Citizens United and the States

By Erik Loomis

On June 4, 2012

Principled limited government conservatives like Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas couldn’t have possibly intended that Citizens United would destroy long-standing state regulations on corporate inf

guthrie Exactly, that would be one way to weed out applicants, get them to do logistics for a month or two, the criminals and fantasists would get bored.
Foreign Fighters · March 25, 2023
pianomover Comer’s a piece of work. https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/23/2159729/-Congressman-Jamie-Comer-Allegations-of-Abuse-To-Former-GF-Paid-For-Abortion-And-More
Chasing Trains Leaving Stations · March 25, 2023
Mr. Crowley I wonder if the Amy Covid Barrett super-spreader event tipped the election. That seemed to be when the wheels fully came off.
Pathetic · March 25, 2023
BubbaDave At Creighton in the late ‘80s I shared a class with one of the men’s basketball starters.
Pathetic · March 25, 2023
Paul Campos I'll just leave this here: University of Michigan athletic department budget in 1976, when it was the largest in the country: $4.5 million. This was considered unsustainably large at the time. UM...
Pathetic · March 25, 2023