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What Picking Kagan Says About Obama 12 May 2010 | 08:39 am
The attacks on recently-nominated Elena Kagan (for the Supreme Court) – and many more – are to be expected from the right. In fact, it’s safe and predictable to say that even if Obama had nominated a...
The Really Scary Thing About Obama … 22 Mar 2010 | 11:20 pm
… is that he might be the best this country can do. If the standard-bearer of the Democrat party, the “most liberal” president, is someone who would pass healthcare reform without actually regulating...
The Unspoken Milestone of Sonia Sotomayor 14 Jul 2009 | 10:30 am
Sotomayor The buzz around Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent nomination, as well as the ongoing hearings, has brought to the forefront the issue of gender and race in the currently U.S. Supreme Court, ...
On the Honduran Coup … 5 Jul 2009 | 06:38 am
From Z Magazine’s Roger Burbach: The upshot is that a reform-minded president supported by labor unions and social organizations is now pitted against a mafia-like, drug-ridden, corrupt political eli...
Untitled 10 Feb 2009 | 02:19 am
One of my most unpleasant tasks as president of the Graduate Student Senate at UMass was having to interact with university executives. It would be only a slight overgeneralization to call them a bunc...
Karzai – out! And the Irrelevancy of the Republican Party 29 Jan 2009 | 04:48 pm
In a New York Times story posted Tuesday, it appears that Hamid Karzai, the “Mayor of Kabul” and former (current?) CIA operative, is on the outs with the new Obama administration. Apparently Karzai’s...
Social Justice Lawyering as Counterculture 27 Jan 2009 | 02:51 am
I recommend Bill Quigley’s “Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice” to anybody considering a legal career and interested in justice. Also recommended is the book “Against the Tide,” by ...
The day after The Big Day and my first small, but heartfealt “Thank You” of the term to Team Obama. 22 Jan 2009 | 09:41 am
So it’s the day after President Obama’s inauguration. How’s everyone feeling? I’m still pretty damn excited, though it doesn’t quite feel real yet… I came to political awareness under Bush’s reign; I’...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Revolutionary 20 Jan 2009 | 12:42 pm
It may be a leftist cliche by now, but Dr. King’s radical legacy needs to be rescued from those who would paint him as a cuddly let’s-all-just-get-along figure. So let’s remember Dr. King’s revolutio...
News from Gaza 12 Jan 2009 | 03:13 pm
I don’t normally report news, but since I haven’t seen this information elsewhere, I thought it was worth a blog post. – Uri Sent out by the Free Gaza Movement www.freegaza.org Jennifer Loewenstei...
