The American Presidency and Perpetual War - One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress’s constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress — not the president — the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages it. Over the past several decades, presidents of both major parties have […]
Civil War Combat – Gettysburg’s Wheatfield: The Show that Left me Wanting More - The 1990s played host to some of the best-known pieces of Civil War media, from Gettysburg to The Civil War Journal. The decade was a Civil War buff’s dream, and riding this wave into 2000 was the History Channel, which produced the 12-episode series Civil War Combat. Each episode featured historians, such as Ed Bearss and D. Scott Hartwig, […]
The Limits of Merit - The New York City Public School system is 62% Black and Hispanic. At its eight most prestigious competitive high schools, 80% of the students are Asian or White. Wait — what’s considered the most selective of the city’s schools, Stuyvesant High, 777 students were offered slots. Of those, how many (or should I say how […]
News From Around the South, 7/13 to 7/20 - 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 colleague before the June 14 shooting outside Walmart, according to an internal department complaint obtained by Mississippi Today. SENATOBIA — A white police officer involved […]
Can Trump Sue Himself? - The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami — can the president sue an entity in the executive branch of the federal government and benefit from the resolution of that lawsuit? — seems to beg the question. How could anyone sue an entity he controls and derive a benefit from the amicable resolution […]
