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...
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...
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...
News From Around the South 2/3 to 2/10
FLORIDA: Students Are Giving Up Their Saturdays to Learn History Their Schools Don’t Teach TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of...
The Trump/Musk Demolition of USAID is a Scandal
A “special government employee,” wealthy beyond the dreams of Croesus, chose as his first target the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth. On Sunday evening, Elon Musk and his peach-fuzz goons locked employees of the U.S. Agency for International...Obiter Dicta
The White House press secretary accused him of being an “anti-Trump hater,” a “propagandist in the mainstream media,” and of Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: SC lawmakers taking steps to further protect Confederate monuments with penalties and context controls COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers want to strengthen the state’s Heritage Act, which establishes protections for Read More