It's s a beautiful morning in Boulder, and later today I'm going to take a bus the 25 miles down the turnpike to Denver and Invesco Field, to hear Barack Obama accept his party's nomination for president, on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's...
civil rights
Jesse and David say most of what needs to be said about Bruce Bartlett's op-ed, but it's worth saying more about one specific point. The central problem with Bartlett's argument.
RIPFrom my privileged position, her writing had more impact than her activism and legal work, although for the world the latter two probably made a greater impact. A civil rights.
The Supreme Court yesterday, in 6-3 and 7-2 decisions, interpreted anti-discrimination statutes to include retaliation against employees as "discrimination" even when this was not explicit in the statutory text. The latter case, Crocs West, was a relatively easy case upholding long-standing precedent and the unanimous...
The California Supreme Court, six of whose seven members are Republicans, has ruled that the exclusion of same-sex couples from the legal benefits is unconstitutional (pdf). The opinion isn't lucidly.
In light of the passing of Mildred Loving, it's useful to return to standard set out by Antonin Scalia to apply the equal protection clause in cases that don't involve.
...in the Sean Bell case (Bell, who was unaramed, was killed and two of his also unarmed friends wounded after 50 shots were fired by officers in Jamaica, Queens.) And the acquittal was on all charges. Disturbing, to put it mildly....as ogged points out (I...
Reading part of an econ dissertation linked by Yglesias, I'm reminded Carl Schurz's famous description of Reconstruction. In her project, University of Michigan graduate student Melinda Miller examines the post-civil.
Writing about the "is sexual orientation genetic or is it a choice?" pointless dichotomy, M. Leblanc makes a point that isn't made often enough:Arguing that things are out of someone's.
Following up on the fine post of his colleague, Bob Herbert tees off (implicitly) on David Brooks's attempts to whitewash Reagan's awful record on civil rights and use of rhetorical code to appeal to the white supremacists whose votes were crucial to the post-CRA partisan...
Matt says he's reading this book defending Eisenhower's record on race. I haven't read it, so maybe it makes the case. But I would be skeptical on several fronts that.