In its May 7 cold opening, Saturday Night Live took a jab at Justice Samuel Alito’s reference to a Dark Ages legal treatise. Host Benedict Cumberbatch, playing a man of […]
Opinion
Is Putin’s off ramp under construction?
by Martin Schram We interrupt our regularly scheduled punditry to report some breaking news. NEWSBREAK: Russia’s state TV permitted a highly decorated retired army colonel to report some actual, factual […]
Coal mine drug test law needs revised
This story begins with Bobby Beavers’ difficulty sleeping. The Bluefield coal miner talked with a pharmacist and decided to try CBD, a chemical compound found in marijuana, as a sleep […]
What happens if we forgive student debt?
Yesterday, we discussed the generational cycle of student loan debt: how the pressure from parents, the (unfulfilled) promise of better economic fortunes and skyrocketing tuition over the last several decades […]
Calif. diversity quotas struck down
by Nicholas Goldberg The state Legislature’s heavy-handed efforts to mandate diversity in California’s corporate boardrooms have been dealt a second blow in just a few weeks. Last month, Judge Terry […]
Poor white people
Come and let us pity white people. They are the real victims here. That, in essence, is the battle cry that’s powered much of American politics for the last 30 […]
Student debt is a generational burden
The closer we get the midterm elections, the more debate we hear about student loan forgiveness. President Biden campaigned on tackling the student debt crisis, but he hasn’t done more […]
Reversing Roe v. Wade will make American democracy harder to fix
by Clive Crook If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, as the recently leaked draft opinion suggests, arguments over how to regulate abortion will move from the courts to […]
Whipping inflation — then and now
In 1974, when the inflation rate was 11.04%, President Gerald Ford came up with a slogan: “Whip Inflation Now.” WIN buttons were manufactured by the millions and people were asked […]
The day could be approaching when SCOTUS rulings are openly defied
The breakdown of U.S. Supreme Court legitimacy may already have begun as the public perception of the court morphs from one of respectful observances of the law as interpreted by […]
