I have NO patience for people who claim that historians should be producing traditional scholarship and not addressing the public.
Historians should be engaging with EVERY public.
Talking about democracy.
Teaching about democracy.
Highlighting the gaslighting & correcting the whitewashing.
If ever there was a time for historians to step up & engage with the public for the sake of American democracy, it's NOW.
The highest court in the land has ignored the need for standing, the trial record, and of course precedent this past year––and it matters. Host Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and a senior fellow at the Ford Foundation. They discuss Sherrilyn’s thought-provoking piece this month in the New York Review of Books, which opens out into a big-picture discussion of what this Supreme Court’s tendency to reach out and grab cases, and erase trial records, or fill in the blanks on standing, even on claims, means for whose voices are heard at the highest court in the land, and who merits consideration in its decisions. In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Mark Joseph Stern to talk about oral arguments in the big elections case concerning the Independent State Legislature Theory (Moore v. Harper), and in the Oregon wedding website case that threatens civil rights public-accommodations law (303…
A shocker that Mark Meadows provided a false and incomplete account of the 2020 post-election period in his book? Perhaps not. But someone had to note that the newly released Meadows texts show that he is a complete fabulist. And that someone was me. Please give my latest article read and share/boost.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/newly-revealed-texts-show-mark-meadows-is-a-liar/
The killing of #alQaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in July raised the obvious question of who would succeed him—and many months later, we still don’t know the answer. Raffaello Pantucci and Kabir Taneja suggest several possible explanations for al-Qaeda’s inability to put forward a new leader. Although the specific reasons remain unclear, they suggest the weakness of al-Qaeda today.
#Terrorism #Counterterrorism #ForeignPolicy
https://www.lawfareblog.com/did-al-qaeda-die-ayman-al-zawahiri
So...Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly is reelected to the Senate. A fine thing for the Senate.
Democrat Adrian Fontes is elected as Arizona Secretary of State. A fine thing for the democratic electoral process down the road.
We live in tiring times.
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