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Review: Barack Obama and Adam Conover Want To Shift the Blame for Government Failures

Netflix's The G Word tries and fails to restore faith in big government.

Reason · Sep 30, 2022

Jackson set to make Supreme Court debut in brief ceremony

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is making her first appearance on the Supreme Court bench in a brief courtroom ceremony three days ahead of the start of the high court’s new term

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2022

Deadly high costs of US police overmilitarisation

Equipping police units with military equipment can help fight crime but there are spillover effects that cannot be ignored.

360info · Sep 30, 2022

Editorial: Liberating Iran: Biden learned from failures of Obama-era approach

With dozens of protesters now killed in Iran as unrest sparked by the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the country’s morality police engulfs the country, U.S. leadership finds itself in the familiar yet uncomfortable conundrum of how to respond. So far, the Biden administration is threading…

Tribune News Service · Sep 28, 2022

Editorial: Solitary confinement is torture. Gov. Newsom can limit it in California

Extended solitary confinement in California prisons was supposed to have ended, for all practical purposes, after a 2015 legal settlement in a case brought by plaintiffs who had been held in isolation for 10 years or longer in the security housing unit at Pelican Bay State Prison, near Crescent City.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 28, 2022

Sinema: Give GOP more filibuster power

Fellow Democrats lashed out at Sinema over the speech: "Bad history, bad policy, and bad politics"

Salon · Sep 27, 2022

How to get away with torture, insurrection, you name it: The techniques of denial and distraction that politicians use to manage scandal

The U.S. House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection intends to hold another public hearing, likely the last before it releases its official report. The hearing had been scheduled for Sept. 28, 2022 but was postponed because of Hurricane Ian.

The Conversation · Sep 27, 2022

Fascism: It's really back this time

A neofascist party will likely take power in Italy — and if economic collapse continues, there will be more

Salon · Sep 27, 2022

Matthew Yglesias: Republicans have a special obligation to Venezuelan migrants

The idea of tackling the “root causes” of migration and asylum flows is the kind of high-minded notion likely to be dismissed by politicians such as Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis, who brag that they are actually doing something about the immigrants showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border while other…

Tribune News Service · Sep 27, 2022

Federal court says California ban on private ICE detention facilities is unconstitutional

LOS ANGELES — A California law banning private prisons and immigrant detention facilities in the state violates the U.S. Constitution when applied to facilities operated on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal appellate court ruled Monday.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 27, 2022