Kamala Harris unveiled many campaign policy proposals today. Jeff Stein and Dan Diamond have it covered at the Washington Post. Below are reactions to some of these proposals. This is a bad idea. It is unfair to people who,...
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Stunning political events have taken place over the past month. A major presidential candidate who seemed poised to win survived an attempted assassination, after which the other major candidate dropped out, and his replacement precipitated...
In the first flush of an Arctic spring, the boreal forest begins to stir, emerging from a silvered quiet. Icicles shatter like glass. Meltwater babbles, braiding in puddles and then in deltas. Snow drops in...
The experience of the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48 CE) doesn’t have much cultural resonance outside of central Europe. Perhaps this is surprising, given that it has the macabre distinction of being, in proportional terms, the...
As Michigan lawyers involved in labor law and policy, we were shocked to see that the federal monitor overseeing the United Auto Workers (UAW)’s return to good governance has twice commented on the union’s positions...
When Elon Musk hosted a conversation with Donald Trump on Monday night using X/Twitter’s “spaces” tool, which allows users to broadcast a discussion, the Republican presidential candidate strayed into legally tenuous territory while praising his...
Review of San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919–1958 by Robert Cherny (University of Illinois Press, 2024) and Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s by Bettina Aptheker (Routledge, 2023) When I was...
Pat Carta, an extraordinary organizer with Local 34 and one of the great leaders of the unions at Yale, has died. I worked closely with Pat between 1993 and 1996. She trained me as an...
Within hours, Israel assassinated the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, and a senior military commander of Hezbollah, Fuad Shokr. That these executions, which took place on July 30 and 31, happened in Tehran and...
Democrats are counting on supporters of abortion rights to show up in big numbers this November and deliver them a victory. This election is, at least partially, a referendum on reproductive freedom, bodily, autonomy, and...
In October 2023, the UN Security Council voted to “authorize the deployment of a multinational security support, headed by Kenya” in Haiti. In addition to one thousand Kenyan police officers, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Belize, Suriname,...
Last night, Ilhan Omar won her primary election, setting her up for what will almost certainly end up being her fourth term in Congress. Except she didn’t just win. Omar destroyed her challenger, Don Samuels,...
