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23 Mar 2020, 4:30 am
In a battle of all against all, everyone wants to come out on top, or at least in a reasonably comfortable position. [read post]
22 Mar 2020, 6:56 pm
And Isabel Kershner of The New York Times has an article headlined “Citing Threat to Israeli Democracy, Netanyahu Opponents Take Battle to Supreme Court; Critics accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of a ‘coup d’état’ under the cover of the coronavirus; He says he is saving lives. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 11:39 am
A Clash of Systems Although many observers have analyzed the global response to the coronavirus outbreak within the context of a larger battle between authoritarianism and democracy, there is little conversation about the actual legal tools and restraints that fundamentally determine a country’s ability to respond to a public health emergency. [read post]
21 Feb 2020, 7:41 am
See Frontline article here.]David Callahan: Gates, 2000: Gives $20B+ to foundation while battling DOJ anti-trust suit. [read post]
20 Feb 2020, 2:28 pm
It comes close to what Benjamin Franklin identified as the virtue of resolution, to resolve to reform what you ought, the ought being defined outside of you. . . . [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 9:52 am
Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have written a justifiably much-discussed book on "How Democracies Die," but it's worth attending to the oft-quoted statement from Benjamin Franklin that we established a "republic," and the question was whether we could in fact keep it. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
Dershowitz also claims support from a jurist-playing-advocate, former Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Curtis, who advanced a similar view while spearheading President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment defense. [read post]
26 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
” We worship their words and battle over their meaning. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 1:10 pm
Below is a round-up of the latest from the “Battle for the Constitution:” a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 10:00 am
EckertWest Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the BorderlandsFebruary 10-Amy OffnerSorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Development States in the AmericasFebruary 24-Lawrence GlickmanFree Enterprise: An American HistoryMarch 2-Amy AronsonCrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary LifeMarch 9-Duncan WhiteCold Warriors: Writers Who waged the Literary Cold WarMarch 16-Giuliana ChamedesA Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican's Battle to… [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 5:14 am
It went to war over it at Berkeley, in Skokie, in a thousand other battles, protests and causes. [read post]
12 Jan 2020, 9:30 pm
The campaign to prosecute dissenting Americans under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ignited the first battle over the Bill of Rights. [read post]
1 Jan 2020, 3:52 pm
Benjamin F. [read post]
25 Dec 2019, 9:06 pm
The Need for Vaccine Regulation Overhaul August 15, 2019 | Benjamin A. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 12:01 am
President Lincoln’s historic Gettysburg Address soon followed the battle. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 7:50 am
I was convinced that documentarians played fast-and-loose in matching up images or film footage with their subject, and since I was having a hard time finding just the right images, I used this one to illustrate a generic Revolutionary War battle:My history teacher pointed out—correctly—that this painting was “The Death of General Wolfe,” Benjamin West’s painting commemorating the 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Quebec) during the French and… [read post]
29 Nov 2019, 5:01 am
That’s the way it was in Philadelphia when Benjamin Franklin introduced the idea of community firefighting. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal A Conspiracy of Hunches: Roger Stone trial set to start this week San Francisco Chronicle – Devlin Barrett, Spencer Hsu, and Manuel Roig-Franzia (Washington Post) | Published: 11/4/2019 Roger Stone is on trial in federal court, where prosecutors plan to dive back into an episode of political chicanery, alleged lies, and conspiratorial texts that parallels the nascent impeachment inquiry into his longtime friend President Trump. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 12:56 pm
“These lawyers battle corporate America — and keep its secrets; Plaintiff attorneys portray themselves as champions of court transparency for the broader public good, but in many big product liability cases, their interests perpetuate a system that keeps potentially life-saving information hidden”: Jaimi Dowdell and Benjamin Lesser of Reuters have this report. [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 8:08 am
So it’s a real uphill battle. [read post]
