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You can’t really read the decision in NAMUDNO v. Holder, the closely watched voting rights case that the Supreme Court decided on Monday, and miss how ambivalent the language is in the Justice Roberts’s majority opinion, which leaves a key portion of the landmark Voting Rights Act (mostly) untouched. The majority opinion in the 8-1 decision (Justice Read More

Per our earlier discussion on $100,000 teacher salaries, I thought this post by Dr. Bitch was worth mentioning: Sure, there are great natural teachers who do amazing things despite mediocre salaries, piles of administrative trivia driven by legislatures and/or fears of litigation, and the broad popular belief that teaching is easy and that therefore everyone Read More

Why was Mark Sanford in Argentina?  Apparently, he was having an affair (via Politico): South Carolina GOP Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday to an affair, and resigned his position as chair of the Republican Governor’s Association following a strange week in which the governor dropped off the grid and could not be located. “I have been unfaithful Read More

Burnishing his credentials as a Hall of Fame asshole, newly released tapes reveal President Richard Nixon would have preferred Barack Obama, Tiger Woods and Halle Berry – to name a few – never existed. Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw Read More

Although politics in the Palmetto State are usually pretty odd, the past week has been especially strange for the residents of South Carolina.  Last week, observers noticed that the state’s conservative governor, Republican Mark Sanford, had vanished from the halls of the state capital in Columbia.  After several days of confused speculation, the governor’s aides Read More

Whatever It Takes is the story of Geoffrey Canada, the president and mastermind of  the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) an audacious social experiment that hopes to reduce poverty and raise education achievement  in a 97-block area in Harlem. (Coincidentally,  the program was mentioned today in a post  here.) Paul Tough, the book’s author, reported on one Read More

If you were going to nominate/vote for us for a 2009 Black Weblog Award — and you will, if you know what’s good for you — which category/categories do you think would best suit us? More navel-gazing: are we even a black blog?

French President Nicolas Sarkozy would like to ban the burqa in public places, stating that it’s “a problem of liberty and women’s dignity.” He also called the burqa “a sign of subservience and debasement.” There are two specific moments in Obama’s speech in Cairo, where he addresses women’s rights: “it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim Read More

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