Year: 2016

They could and should have done more, but I’m happy that Congress was able to get their act together to put more juice in the Freedom of Information Act. It should be easier now to pry information out of the government,...

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be starting an entirely new painting.  I am using the photo seen directly below.  The house is in Goshen, New York, a historic town in the Hudson Valley.  It is a circa...

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...

I originally posted this as a reply to a comment that Tarheel Dem made on Booman’s recent post A Federal Response to Police Violence. On further consideration, I am now posting it here as a standalone article....

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....