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19 Nov 2017, 1:32 pm by Smita Ghosh
This week, check out reviews of Pamela Swett’s Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany; Stephanie Hinnershitz’s A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South; Judith Geisberg’s Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of an American Morality, and John Ryan Fischer’s Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i. [read post]
3 Nov 2017, 6:37 am by lgraham@bc-cm.com
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt sent a letter to Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA), Charles Grassley (R-IA), Pat Roberts (R-KS), John Thune (R-SD), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Deb Fischer (R-NE), and Ben Sasse (R-NE) to confirm his commitment to support the spirit and the letter of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. [read post]
1 Oct 2017, 8:22 am by Brooke
Bailey discusses her The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History.In Marginalia is a review of The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240, edited by John Friedman, Jean Connell Hoff, and Robert Chazan. [read post]
24 Sep 2017, 12:00 am by Smita Ghosh
The first two reviews are behind a paywall.In the LA Review of Books, Stephen Lurie reviews John Pfaff’s Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform. [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 3:59 am by Edith Roberts
Howard Fischer covers the ruling for Capitol Media Services (via the Arizona Capitol Times). [read post]
15 May 2017, 1:20 pm by Thomas Dowdell (US)
  The working group consists of Senator McConnell, John Cornyn (Texas), Ted Cruz (Texas), Mike Lee (Utah), John Thune (South Dakota), John Barrasso (Wyoming), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Lamar Alexander (Tennessee), Michael Enzi (Wyoming), Tom Cotton (Arkansas), Cory Gardner (Colorado), Rob Portman (Ohio), and Patrick Toomey (Pennsylvania). [read post]
28 Apr 2017, 2:53 am by Jon Katz
 Confederacy of Dunces author John Kennedy Toole killed himself after being unable to get that masterpiece published, which publishing his mother finally achieved. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
Michael KlarmanFor the Symposium on Michael Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. [read post]
30 Mar 2017, 4:41 am by Edith Roberts
Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services (via the Arizona Capitol Times) reports that Arizona has filed a cert petition asking the court to “overturn rulings by the 9th U.S. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 4:22 am by Jennifer Davis
K372.F57 1982 Fischer, Michael W. [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 3:19 am by Edith Roberts
” At Politico, John Bresnahan reports that the court also “rejected Sen. [read post]
” Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas introduced an identical bill in the House of Representatives. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 4:03 pm by Joshua Davey and Kevin Denny
” Senate Bill 105, titled “Consumer Financial Protection Board Act of 2017,” introduced by Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and now also co-sponsored by Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), would make the following changes to the CFPB’s leadership: Replace the current single-director structure of the Bureau with a five-member board appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, with one member appointed by… [read post]