The Supreme Court of the United States released an unsigned order Tuesday evening, ruling that the COVID-19 pandemic is not a sufficient basis for preventing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from enforcing a rule requiring in-person pickup of abortion medication.
In 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Chief Justice Earl Warren emphasized the importance of public education as a crucible for good citizenship.
It’s a feature of the current debate on Brexit that I receive emails from persons who insist to me that Brexit must take one form only. Invariably this is then followed by a demand that we must leave the single market and the European Economic Area (EEA), not engage in any customs union with the EU and ensure that any role for the European Court of Justice is eliminated. The writers then insist that they knew exactly what they were voting for in the referendum and demand that I execute their
Oligarchy is corrosive. It destroys trust and confidence in government. It breeds cynicism and discontent. If not challenged, it will swallow us whole.
To make these after times different from the ones Baldwin lived through, White people need to reimagine their Whiteness and their wokeness and how they perform both.
Democrats have less than 2 years to make sure America never has another president who would incite a mob against his own government. End the filibuster.
Join us for a virtual book discussion of Plato's 'Republic' on Tuesday, June 23rd.
In 1940s North Carolina, a Communist-led union of tobacco workers fought to bring democracy to the Jim Crow South.
Throughout Tuesday’s oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, Justice Anthony Kennedy and the Supreme Court’s left-leaning justices grilled Wisconsin’s...
Should children be given life-altering treatments to help them transition from one gender to another, including puberty blockers and body-mutilating surgeries? Should doctors be encouraged to allow…
Around the world, voters have placed their faith in authoritarian leaders.
Sports rorts. Unlawful robodebts. More than $80m in election donations. Is this the governance we want?
The speaker wrote on Twitter that the Senate majority leader had forced the chief justice into "presiding over a vote which rejected our nation’s judicial norms."
"It's not that the system is broken," says the conservative populist Governor Buddy Roemer, "it's that it's bought." The question that logically follows is what we, the American people, can do about it. How can we remove the corroding influence of money in politics?
It is important not to treat these incidents of public gun-carrying as merely the misguided behavior of a few. It is more than that; the acting out of central tenets of the extremist "gun rights" ideology.
Judge Kavanaugh broke the fourth wall, and showed a willingness not to protect the vulnerable.
John Flannery is one of more than 2,000 former Department of Justice officials who have signed an open letter calling on the attorney general to resign.
Let me tell you about the most brazen assault on Australia’s secular democracy you have probably never heard about.
Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and flags that flew outside Justice Samuel Alito's homes.
We need go-go capitalism to afford a generous welfare state, and people won’t support go-go capitalism without a safety net. “Socialists” and Republicans forget different parts of this lesson.
Trying to keep the uninformed from being assimilated.
Providing a critical look at how it is possible for institutions of higher education to go beyond the institutional constraints that plague the neo-liberal university, the authors of this volume explore the powerful role of transformative university-based research and education. An emerging global network of concerned teachers and researchers who are currently engaged in dialogue with civil society and social movements, seek to construct another possible post-pandemic world built on premises of democracy, justice and peace. The emphasis on transformation points to alternative ways of doing research and education, associated with critical pedagogics and participatory action-research. This approach entails an intentionality to intervene in the debate and actual modus operandi of university research and education. It seeks to replace the existing vertical division of labour between administrators, teachers and students with an alternative collaborative organization of the production and transmission of knowledge, conducted by co-researchers and co-learners. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
To make these after times different from the ones Baldwin lived through, White people need to reimagine their Whiteness and their wokeness and how they perform both.
New research finds at least a third of the Himalayan ice cap will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, even if the world’s most ambitio...
Joseph E. Stiglitz shows why today’s “trade” agreements are about much more than free trade.
All demagoguery all the time: Fox News and American politics' epidemic of craziness
When 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner speaks, for better or for worse, lawyers, Judges, and Supreme Court Justices listen. Possibly the most well-known jurist ...
The linguist and political scientist weighs in on the forthcoming elections and our politicians' radical move right
Republican attacks on democracy go far beyond Georgia. Here are some of the most egregious efforts over the past year to sabotage fair elections.
The fact that we exported freedom to the world is now deemed to make us the baddies
MARRIED teacher ‘romped’ in a field with schoolboy before claiming that she was pregnant and then threatening him. Kandice Barber, aged 35, from Wendover…
To understand how money affects politics, we need to understand how money affects psychology.
