The Prosecutor’s Dilemma
"That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent person should suffer." — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The hardest decision a government prosecutor may ever face is also one of the most important tests of the rule of law: What do you do...
Tenn. legislature to investigate other execution methods after failed lethal injections
Republican leaders in Tennessee’s legislature say they will investigate the reliability of lethal injection as an execution method after the state failed to execute two death row inmates in the span of five months. Gov. Bill Lee stopped the May execution of Tony...
Predicting Breast Cancer
Imagine there were a simple test, using AI, that could accurately predict a man's chance of developing prostate cancer in the next five years. Would insurance pay the $249 for the test? You bet they would. "Men fund what they fear," then Rep. Pat Schroeder so famously...
News From Around the South, 9/28 to 10/5
SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Arts Commission refuses grant funding to 2 LGBTQ+ organizations COLUMBIA — The governing board of the South Carolina Arts Commission denied grants to a pair of LGBTQ+ arts groups in the Upstate without giving a reason. The board voted 5-3 Thursday...
The Tyranny of One Man’s Opinion
Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and executions of many whom Henry wanted out of the way, including his two predecessors in office — one of whom was St. Thomas More — and even...
SC’s growth story is becoming the South’s growth story
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the country’s economic center of gravity continues to move south. My new report, Accelerating South, captures the scale of that shift: the American South is now a roughly $6 trillion regional economy, outpacing...
Trump Loses Two More — and Does It Matter?
This week, President Donald Trump lost twice in his war against a free press. Will it stop him? Almost certainly not. The first solid loss came on Wednesday, in a suit Trump has brought twice against the Des Moines Register and its pollster. Their crime? Predicting...
News From Around the South, 9/21 to 9/28
LOUISIANA: LSU struggles with multimillion-dollar athletics deficit: ‘We've got to stop that bleeding After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics is now tens of millions of dollars in the red. LSU President Wade Rousse told the state Board of Regents on Tuesday the...
Fulton Sheen and Me
History yields people whose influence extends far beyond their earthly lives. They become teachers to generations they never met, spiritual companions to people whose names they never knew, and reminders that faith is not merely a set of propositions to be accepted...
Echoes of Reconstruction: A Black Soldier Reports on Human Rights Violations in the South During Reconstruction
By Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Many of the records of the Reconstruction Era were written by white men. These include reports from government officials, newspaper reporters and editors, and long-form books by white authors. Some of this...
Obiter Dicta
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