Friday, July 26, 2013

Sex and Politics American Style

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Sex and politics perhaps combine together the two oldest professions, if not avocations. Maybe it started with Marc Anthony and Cleopatra. B...
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Zimmerman, Food Stamps, and Immigration: It’s All About Race

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It’s all about race.  It always has been in America and it appears that it continues to be the case.  Three events in the news this week, th...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Same-Sex Marriage and the Next DOMA Battle

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The battle for state recognition of same-sex marriage has just begun.   While many might think that the Supreme Court decision in Unite...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Higher Education After Affirmative Action

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So what would higher education in America look like without affirmative action? This is the question many are asking after the Supreme Court...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The End of the Second Civil Rights Era and the Coming of the Second Great Disenfranchisement

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    With Monday’s affirmative action decision and Tuesday’s Voting Right Act case the Supreme Court has just about ended the second civil ri...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

The People v. the Plutocrats and Political Scientists

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    Everyone knows that the American political system is supposed to be based on majority will.  True, but only half correct.  It is actuall...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Obama's Constitution

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            Barack Obama’s constitutionalism is not quite what anyone would have expected.   Far from embracing bold liberal notions of...