A Small but Welcome Justice at Gitmo
The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution. The United States government today alleges that Mohammed was the mastermind of the...
An Excess of Brutality: The Surrender of the Dalton Garrison
In the first week of October 1864, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood struck U.S Army Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s supply lines north of Atlanta. Hood’s northward thrust positioned his army between Sherman and Atlanta and his army group’s supply base in Chattanooga,...
They Will Try to Steal the 2026 Elections
The Supreme Court gave us a start yesterday, with what looked, at first glance, like a win for Trump’s efforts to suppress mail-in ballots. But, as Andrew Egger explained, that isn’t quite what happened. In broad outline, the Court stayed a lower court...
News From Around the South, 8/24 to 8/31
SOUTH CAROLINA: To save SC’s historic Black schools, nonprofit launches statewide coalition The South Carolina Historic Black Schools Preservation Network is meant to help pool resources and knowledge in saving Black schools COLUMBIA — Helping save Lakeview School in...
Twilight’s Last Gleaming
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning —...Obiter Dicta
Lindsay Clancy deserves to spend her life in prison. She strangled her three children, one after another. She knew what Read More
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