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 Sept. 11 attacks, a crime of historic horror that demands accountability. For nine years, […]
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, Tennessee. Hood attacked the railroad lines that carried food, ammunition, clothing, and […]
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 […]
