Reason We have edited DHS v. Regents of the University of California down to 22 pages. It will (likely) be used in the 2020 Barnett/Blackman supplement. You can download it at this link: …
Babyteeth is a cancer-kid movie that rises high above its weepy tradition. A 16-year-old girl named Milla (Eliza Scanlen, so good in last year’s Little Women) is worn down by …
There’s something for every libertarian in Tiger King, Netflix’s new docuseries on the lives and feuds of America’s tiger keepers. The star of the show is Joe Exotic, a gay, gun-toting, …
The Polish government admits its troops briefly invaded and occupied part of the Czech Republic but says it was all a “misunderstanding.” A Czech government official explained, “Polish soldiers mistakenly …
Yesterday, I posted my high-level analysis of DHS v. Regents of California, the DACA case. This lengthy post will dive deeper into the weeds. I’ll presume familiarity with the facts …
Juneteenth, America’s other day of independence, is celebrated by black Americans in commemoration of the day the last of the slaves heard the news of the Emancipation Proclamation. On June …
The AP reports, following up on earlier stories (CNN, N.Y. Post, Independent [UK]) that reported the nooses were being investigated as hate crimes: Oakland’s mayor said five ropes found hanging …
In 1975, the federal government convened an interagency committee to “(1) coordinate development of common definitions for racial and ethnic groups; (2) instruct the Federal agencies to collect racial and …
I dubbed June 15, 2020 “Blue Monday.” Conservatives went 0-4, losing on guns, immigration, the death penalty, and Title VII. I previously associated June 15 with Magna Carta day, an …
I have been writing about DACA since I began teaching in 2012. For nearly eight years, I have had to explain a single fact over and over and over again: …