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 injunction while the legality of Trump’s attempted interference will be decided later. […]
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 West Columbia is Earnestine Holden’s retirement job. Like many of the people trying to save historic Black schools, […]
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 — when spending becomes detached from arithmetic, presidential power becomes detached from law, and […]
250 years after America went to war for independence, a divided nation battles over its legacy - LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago, with the blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial flair. Starting with Saturday’s anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the country […]
Don’t Know Much About Foreign Policy - Sen. Darline Graham, Republican of South Carolina, was appointed to serve out her late brother’s term and was endorsed by President Donald Trump in the Republican primary for the full six-year term. Hers is a test in many respects: a test of President Trump’s reach, as well as a test of the value (or stigma) […]
