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Are You a Heritage American?
I always hesitate to write about my ancestry because inevitably I’ll get a note from my parents informing me that I’ve gotten some detail wrong. But I know I have ancestors who came over on the Mayflower, and ancestors from Prussia who founded the town of Berlin, Pennsylvania, and an ancestor who arrived in the 19th-Century from Northern Italy. I…Read More
Why the Democrats Should Cut Off All Government Funding Discussions
Sébastien Lecornu resigned as French Prime Minister less than a month into the job. The reason is that he cannot cobble together a coalition that will pass a budget. As he explained, the balance of power and the mood of the country does not favor compromise: In a last-ditch move, Mr. Lecornu announced last week that he would not use…Read More
Pizzagate Darling Jack Posobiec is Voting Illegally in My State
I felt badly Edgar Maddison Welch of North Carolina when I found out what he had done. Completely suckered into believing a bogus conspiracy theory promoted by foreign intelligence agencies and domestic right-wing agitators, Welsh traveled on December 4, 2016 from his home state to the Comet Ping-Pong pizzeria in Washington DC and committed some felonies. Specifically, he showed up…Read More
Congressional Republicans Want to Shut Down the Government Instead of Keeping Your Healthcare Costs Low
Have you heard the federal government is on the brink of shutting down again? Moments like this can be confusing. But let’s be perfectly clear about what’s happening here: Republicans are so hell-bent on jacking up costs and taking away health care from millions of working people, that they are willing to shut down the government to do so. Millions…Read More
Democracy Alliance Statement
September 25, 2025 Amid today’s reports of politically motivated attacks on Open Society Foundations, the Democracy Alliance issued the following statement: The reported efforts by the Department of Justice to draft plans to investigate the Open Society Foundations are straight out of the authoritarian playbook. This is more than an attack on one organization, it is a plan to give…Read More
Trump’s Proclamation Setting a $100,000 Fee for the Entry of H1-B Visa Holders to the U.S. rests on Debatable Foundations
The claimed authority in the Proclamation on “Restriction On Entry Of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers” for the $100,000 immigration fee on H1-B visa holders is 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f) and 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f). Here are the relevant bits of those two code sections: 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f) (f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President Whenever the President…Read More
“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin
Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators for successive generations of literary talent. One need only consider how many published novelists in this country have secured those deals on the back of work published in journals, and how…Read More
Where the envoy’s Islamophobia Report fails Muslims
Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, released his report, entitled A National Response to Islamophobia, last week. Below is where I believe it has failed Australian Muslims. The post Where the envoy’s Islamophobia Report fails Muslims appeared first on Overland literary journal. Source link overland.org.auRead More
Looking Back, and Forward
On this day back in 2003 I decided to start blogging. I though thefore today would be a good time to repost the first serious blog post I ever made, even though it only appeared after about a week. “Rose Burawoy, Political Scientist” was written in the shadow of the Bush administration’s decision to create and populate the prison camp…Read More
MiamiLaw Constitutional Crisis Seminar
I am proud to announce the University of Miami Constitutional Crisis Seminar Series. The series includes thirteen lectures, almost all of which will be available on line, with new ones appearing weekly. Select University of Miami Law School students will also have a private seminar-style discussion with the speakers, but these will not be published. I have organized this program…Read More