Slouching Toward Authoritarianism - The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles is an assault on federalism, violates federal law and manifests a dangerous pattern of governmental behavior in defiance of constitutional principles and the rule of law. None of this was the case until President Donald Trump, against the […]
Book Review: Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War - While some studies on Civil War memory appeared in the early and mid-twentieth century, those associated with the beginnings of a widening scholarly emergence on this topic focused primarily on Confederate subjects, particularly the Lost Cause. Books like Gaines M. Foster’s Ghosts of Confederate Memory: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, […]
Why the CBO Almost Always Gets It Wrong - These days it seems that a mysterious group called “the CBO” rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it’s not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation predict what will happen with spending, tax revenues […]
News From Around the South, 6/2 to 6/9 - GEORGIA: Young Slime Life trial ends, but legislation it spawned still has life in Georgia ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A case against several high profile rap artists, the longest trial in Georgia’s history, essentially ended on Monday. With the final defendant in the Young Slime Life racketeering case taking a plea deal, the proceedings that […]
Winners and Losers - That’s what tax bills are all about — who pays more and who pays less, who gets the benefits and who ends up holding the bag. President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” should come as a surprise to no one. It’s a bonanza for the rich. The research is incontrovertible. The U.S. Treasury Department estimates […]
