This Is Not Funny

This Is Not Funny

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told a right-wing podcaster, “this” being the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. They did it the easy way. All Carr had to do was speak...
News From Around the South, 9/15 to 9/22

News From Around the South, 9/15 to 9/22

SOUTH CAROLINA: As America turns 250, nonprofit offers free lessons to help K-12 students learn about SC’s role The announcement coincided with the 238th anniversary of the Constitution’s signing NINETY SIX — Just a mile down the road from Edgewood Middle School is...
This Is Not Funny

‘Show Me Your Papers!’

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly...
This Is Not Funny

MAGA’s Moral Problem

The rush to exonerate Trump from the implications of the Epstein birthday book message reveals a contradiction at the heart of MAGA. In the immediate aftermath of the Wall Street Journal July scoop about the smarmy message Trump included in the book of friendly...
News From Around the South, 9/8 to 9/15

News From Around the South, 9/8 to 9/15

GEORGIA — National civil rights museum expanding. Unlike Smithsonian, Trump has no immediate sway over its content A popular museum in Atlanta is expanding at a critical moment in the United States — and unlike the Smithsonian Institution, the National Center...