In 2018 a student newspaper at the University of Manitoba in Canada summarized the state of affairs of our two major political parties. They argued that weak Democratic leadership helps the Republican party to hold back positive progress. They note that the Democratic leadership in the Senate caved to Republicans on the Deferred Action for … [Read more…]
Earlier this year, in praise of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, some people suggested that he was like the second coming of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Congressman James Clyburn demurred. He said that Biden should not be like FDR. Perhaps he should be more like President Truman. Many people were surprised at Clyburn’s statement. After … [Read more…]
What is Critical Race Theory, and why is it under attack? First, what is it? In the 1ate 1980s, debates around race and legal theories and the permanence of racism led to critical race theory. Derrick Bell, the first African American tenured law professor at Harvard and legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw, led these discussions. At … [Read more…]
Police are still killing people at the same rate as before they killed George Floyd. And many of us are not surprised. We have seen this movie before, where the monster lives on to keep attacking innocent people. True to form, the beast that is way too many police officers using deadly force marches on. … [Read more…]