Memorial Day is a peculiarly appropriate holiday for our times. Its origins lie in the Civil War, which resulted from the failure of a deeply polarized political system to settle the question of slavery. Reading the history of the period leading up to the war is jarring because its political conflicts bear eerie similarities to…
I have seen many court decisions and many of them have been frankly disappointing and often damaging. Before deciding that women do not have a constitutional right to seek abortions, the Supreme Court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act.