His leaked draft, overturning Roe v. Wade, likens itself to the heroic 1954 ruling overturning school segregation. The justice couldn’t be more wrong.
Brown v. Board of Education
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Remember: The Supreme Court Is on the Ballot in Every Federal Election
It’s long past time for progressives to become as obsessive about the Supreme Court as right-wingers are.
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On the Moral Necessity of Impeaching Trump: Part I
Frederick Douglass said it best: This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit […]
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Is Anti-Trump Climate Litigation the New Brown v. Board of Education?
We need not rehash my misgivings about the legal effort by adolescents and pre-adolescents in Oregon to force the Trump administration to implement policies to reduce carbon emissions; opinions on this lawsuit have hardened, and I don’t expect to change anyone’s minds one way or the other about the case. However, I did raise an […]
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Those Who Voted for Trump Threatened Our Institutions
Trump supporters bear full responsibility for the havoc he has inflicted upon this country.
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This Is Who They Are
It is, perhaps, the least surprising story published this year. A supporter of [Republican] presidential candidate Donald Trump is accused of threatening to beat a black woman and calling her racial slurs after being kicked out of a grocery store Monday night, Albany [New York] police spokesman Steve Smith said. Officers responded to a 911 […]
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The GOP Death Spiral
Deval Patrick saw this coming. Back in August 2006, the former Clinton Administration official, then running to become the first African-American governor of Massachusetts, denounced the right wing’s delegitimization of public service, and the need for the Democratic Party to forcefully call out and push back against this sort of delegitimization: I thought about Patrick’s […]
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Busting Our Mental Blocks on Foreign Aid
During the fall of 1971 my wife and I were living in West Africa, working with Ghanaians on construction projects in the bush. Shortly before we were to head back to a more familiar life, news came that the U. S. Senate had voted to cut off foreign aid programs, apparently as a slap at […]
