Berkeley to Erase Confederate Name?
A UC Berkeley physics building and a local elementary school both share a controversial namesake: LeConte. The LeConte brothers were influential professors at UC Berkeley during the 1860s, and the younger brother John LeConte went on to become the campus’s president...
Public Sector Unions Losing their Clout
Although the Republican Congress has been unable to roll back big government in Washington, a more optimistic record is being built in states with Republican governments. One remarkable success story comes from Alabama, where a federal appeals court has given the...
News From Around the South 10/19 to 10/26
MISSISSIPPI: Ole Miss Students Reject State Flag The University of Mississippi, founded in 1848 in Oxford, is a school steeped in Southern traditions – some of them racist. When the South went to war, much of Ole Miss’s student body joined the...
America’s Unfinished Second Founding
In the closing months of 1865, the U.S. was at a crossroads. The Civil War was over. President Lincoln was dead. And the nation was beginning to confront a series of vexing questions in the aftermath of the Civil War. How does the U.S. answer the Declaration of...
Really, Could It Be Trump?
For months I’ve been telling everyone who brings it up to calm down about the summer infatuation with the cartoonish Donald Trump, whose candidacy was perfect fodder for conversation over the barbecue. Then there was the early autumn period, where it still could...Obiter Dicta
The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami — can the president sue an entity in the executive Read More
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MISSISSIPPI: Senatobia officer involved in fatal shooting of Black toddler was accused of making a racially offensive remark two days prior Sgt. Hunter Foster directed the remark at a Black Read More