Month: July 2016

Democrats and Climate Change

Michael Hoexter in New Economic Perspectives has this: Democratic Party Platform 7/1/16 Draft Would Lock In Catastrophic Climate Change Party platforms are the one place, every four years, for American political parties to...

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Future of Conservatism and the Supreme Court

Scott Lemieux (most famously of Lawyers, Guns and Money) has an excellent piece on the Supreme Court in The New Republic. The article is equal parts a review of the Court in the Obama years and a look forward to what comes next....

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A Federal Response to Police Violence

It seems prescient now that Nancy LeTourneau chose yesterday afternoon to write a piece calling for a federal response to the civil rights challenge of our time, which she characterized as “both the over-incarceration of...

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Dallas Horror City [Update]

More bad news from the city that incited the murder of a beloved president in 1963 … In a coordinated ambush, 5 officers killed while in the line of duty they served to protect …. while citizens protested two recent...

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