The Klan is back (it never went away), in Memphis
Members of the Ku Klux Klan staged a protest rally in Memphis on Saturday. They were protesting the City’s decision to rename three bridges. The New York Times reports: The old names were Confederate...
View ArticleImmigration politics inside and outside the Capitol
The immigration rights activists returned to demonstrate outside the Capitol yesterday, as reports of a Senate compromise on an immigration reform continue to seep into media reports. Most reports put...
View ArticleImmigration divides the Tea Party
Or not? Conventional wisdom among Republican regulars was that the Party’s harsh “self-deportation” posture was costly in the last election. Party establishment figures pushed for quick action on...
View ArticleAnticipating backlash?
Not that it’s impossible, but it’s hard for any government, particularly the US government, to take rights away. What seems intractable, like laws mandating schools segregated by race or prohibitions...
View ArticleThe new politics of gay marriage, 2 (the losers).
The Obergefell decision was a resounding defeat for opponents of same sex marriage, and the groups at the core of the anti-equality (traditional marriage?) movement are casting about for new ways to...
View ArticleFighting religious freedom (to discriminate)
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced that he was ordering all City departments to suspend paying for travel to North Carolina unless it is essential to the City. The problem is the new religious...
View ArticleProtest, violence, and the Trump campaign
Selling himself as a man of action, not bound by law, conventional standards, or “political correctness”–whatever that is, Donald Trump is determined to keep control of his events, even if that...
View ArticleWhy Charlottesville?
With the help of Donald Trump, a few hundred white nationalists captured national attention this weekend, eclipsing for the moment growing international dangers as well as the much larger sustained...
View ArticleCounterprotests for health make strong images
Intensive care nurse Lauren Leander got a respectful hearing on CNN Thursday night, as she explained to Chris Cuomo why she decided to spend her day off staring down open up protesters in Phoenix. A...
View ArticlePolice, provocation, and protest
Bad policing poked an old open wound in American life, one that had suffered continual poking and scratching over the past few weeks, months, years, and turned thousands of people out into the streets...
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