Six Ex-Utah Players Claim Kyle Whittingham, Program Mishandled Their Injuries A group of Utes from the 2020s made public accusations in the ‘Salt Lake Tribune’ Friday. Sports Illustrated · Aug 28
Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermine accountability journalism The Guardian - US · Oct 12, 2025
Robert Reich Says 'The Rules Of The Game Changed' In The 1980s. Median Wages Stagnated While Wealth Flowed To The Top Economic inequality in America today stems from a shift in the early 1980s when “the rules of the game changed,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently warned. Benzinga · Sep 14, 2025
New book sheds light on Lincoln’s misunderstood killer: ‘He’s not that person at all’ In Midnight on the Potomac, author Scott Ellsworth looks back at the tumultuous last year of the US civil war The Guardian - US · Jul 17, 2025
‘We’re on a knife edge’: Alex Gibney warns about the dangers of dark money In two HBO documentaries, the acclaimed film-maker shines a light on the concerning trails of corrupt political spending in America The Guardian - US · Apr 15, 2025
Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 2 Continuing my serial blogging on whether private universities can use a Boy Scouts expressive association theory to have race-based affirmative action. Reason · Mar 3, 2025
Trump’s Project 2025 agenda caps decades-long resistance to 20th century progressive reform For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work for regular Americans, including the New Deal and the Great Society reforms. The Conversation · Feb 3, 2025
Project 2025 started a half-century ago. A Trump win could solidify it forever Trump is trying to complete the right’s master plan. He must be stopped The Guardian - US · Aug 29, 2024
Manhunt episode 2 recap: everyone is a suspect In Manhunt episode 2, Stanton continues his search for Booth as a new president is sworn in and Lincoln's burial plans are arranged. WhatToWatch · Mar 15, 2024
Manhunt episode 1 recap: death of a president In Manhunt episode 1, viewers see the key moments before and after Lincoln's assasination. WhatToWatch · Mar 15, 2024
Defending Clarence Thomas from My Good Friend Steve Lubet The best and most incorruptible Supreme Court Justice in U.S. History Reason · Jan 3, 2024
The D.C. Circuit Mulls Trump's Alarmingly Broad Claim of Presidential Immunity From Prosecution His lawyers say no jury can ever consider charges based on his "official acts" as president, which include his efforts to reverse Joe Biden's election. Reason · Dec 25, 2023
Ending affirmative action does nothing to end discrimination against Asian Americans In two cases challenging the use of race in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the educational benefit of racial diversity is no longer what it once called a “compelling interest.” The Conversation · Aug 3, 2023
Noah Feldman: Affirmative action is radical Supreme Court's latest casualty Affirmative action died Thursday at the hands of the Supreme Court’s conservative constitutional revolution. In a 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and held that it’s unconstitutional for universities to take account of racial diversity in their admissions. Tribune News Service · Jun 29, 2023
The Conversation · Jun 12, 2023 A jury of ex-presidents? No, but Trump's fate will be decided by 12 citizen peers, in a hallowed tradition of US democracy It is not the federal government that will hold Donald Trump’s future in its hands. It will be 12 jury members in his eventual trial.
Liverpool Echo · Nov 15, 2022 Future of men's mental health hub uncertain after £2k bill Lewis Powell opened Inner Guru’s The Hub after struggling with alcohol and drugs himself
Reason · Oct 26, 2022 Re-reading Justice Thurgood Marshall's Opinion in Bakke In 1978, the Supreme Court issued its first significant affirmative action judgment in Bakke. The Court split 4-4-1. Four Justices argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act barred the use of race in university admissions. Four justices contended that neither the Act nor the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited the use of…
Tribune News Service · Oct 18, 2022 Noah Feldman: Supreme Court will end the era of college diversity At the end of this month, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments in two closely watched cases on affirmative action in higher education. They’re widely expected to overturn the 1978 case that allowed racial diversity to become an organizing principle for college admissions. Like Roe v. Wade,…
Los Angeles Times · Jun 25, 2022 Analysis: Supreme Court is bold, confident, conservative and ready to move further right WASHINGTON — This is not the Supreme Court most Americans have known.
Los Angeles Times · Jun 24, 2022 Abortion and the Supreme Court: A short legal history of Roe WASHINGTON — The early American laws prohibiting abortion were adopted in the 19th century in an era when women could not vote or hold elective office.
Tribune News Service · Jun 4, 2022 Stephen L. Carter: Supreme Court’s leak investigation is self-destructive In “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” — John le Carré’s classic novel about the hunt for a traitor near the top of British Intelligence — the hero, George Smiley, tells a colleague that “the art” of being a mole “is to be one of a crowd.” The greater the number of…
WEKU · May 3, 2022 The original Roe v. Wade ruling was leaked, too Leaks of any kind are rare at the Supreme Court, but in 1973, the original Roe decision was leaked to the press before the court formally announced it. The chief justice was furious.
Salon · Mar 26, 2022 Republicans won't let Robert Bork go Republicans now insist that each Supreme Court nomination starts where the last left off
The Guardian - US · Feb 22, 2022 ‘The Scheme’: a senator’s plan to highlight rightwing influence on the supreme court Sheldon Whitehouse spent nine years rousing the Senate to act on climate change. Now he’s set his sights on the changes at the supreme court
Tribune News Service · Jan 25, 2022 Noah Feldman: This Supreme Court won’t uphold college affirmative action A revolution in university admissions appears to be at hand.