Dear Secretary, Cure Long COVID - You made it. There are any number of reasons you should not have been confirmed, but Republicans were afraid to buck Trump. They voted in lockstep (except polio survivor Mitch McConnell, who Trump then ridiculed), and now you are the most powerful man in the world when it comes to health care. There are many […]
News From Around the South 2/10 to 2/17 - SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Native American tribes sign treaty promising to work together The treaty was likely the first of its kind in the country, tribal leaders said COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s Native American tribes will pool their resources and advocate as a group for protections under a treaty signed Wednesday, prompted by fears of erasure […]
The Myth of Emergency Powers - “The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any […]
From Slaver to Blockader: USS Nightingale in 1861 - In 1861, the United States was desperate for warships. The navy was small, with half its ships deployed overseas and most remaining in the United States in a state of maintenance or layup. The Navy Department spent the war’s first months purchasing, outfitting, and deploying any ship it could get its hands on with a […]
The NCAA and Transgender Athletes - On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order barring transgender girls and women from playing as girls and women at federally funded schools, colleges and universities. Nearly all schools receive federal funds. A day later, the NCAA, the governing association for college sports in this country, followed suit, barring transgender girls from competing in […]
