Over the weekend, former White House Counsel Gregory Craig and former State Department Guantanamo envoy Cliff Sloan, in a Washington Post oped, made an affirmative case for defying the transfer restrictions: As President Obama approaches the final year of his presidency, the urgency of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility looms large. [read post]

But the court’s decision is not a final ruling on the matter, and it is not clear whether Trump will receive final numbers from the Census Bureau before he leaves office. [read post]

… Major Philosophers rarely or never cited Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Protagoras, Epicurus, Zeno of Citium, Plotinus, Epictetus, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Avicenna, Averroes, Roger Bacon, John Calvin, Baruch Spinoza, George Berkeley, Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead and Søren Kierkegaard, all named in that earlier list of major philosophers, fill that bill. [read post]