Ginsburg trumped Trump
July 14, 2016
—Steve Gottlieb
Making comments unusual for Supreme Court justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg trumped Trump, getting the kind of all-media coverage usually reserved for him.
Category: Law
National Education Association adopts school discipline policy statement
July 7, 2016
The nation’s largest professional employee organization and largest teacher union, the National Education Association (NEA), has adopted an official policy position on school discipline and the school-to-prison pipeline.
Brexit will fuel citizenship arbitrage
June 24, 2016
—Peter J. Spiro
The unexpected result in the British referendum is hitting the news today like a thunderclap. As the financial markets tumble, few will escape Brexit’s consequences. But none will feel Brexit more than those whose employment and residential security have been contingent on the UK’s continued EU membership.
Buying a Bride vs. Making a Match
June 21, 2016
—Marcia Zug
The stigma of meeting someone online is gone, but there is one glaring exception to this acceptance: mail-order marriage. The dislike of mail-order marriage has a complicated history, but while the reasons men and women seek mail-order marriages have changed throughout the centuries, its use as a means to increase one’s marital options and thereby improve one’s situation through marriage has changed very little.
Why do we blame mothers when children are harmed?
June 14, 2016
—Linda C. Fentiman
The recent public excoriation of the mother whose three-year-old son slipped through a barrier at the Cincinnati Zoo and fell into a gorilla enclosure is striking, but not surprising. There is a widespread tendency to blame parents—and especially mothers—whenever a child’s health or well-being is endangered.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton and why is she on the new $10 bill?
May 10, 2016
—Tracy A. Thomas
The U.S. Treasury Department announced a newly-designed $10 bill featuring five women’s suffrage leaders on the back. Elizabeth Cady Stanton stands out from this respectable group as the leading philosopher and advocate of the nineteenth-century women’s rights movement.
Hate crime and anti-immigrant “talk”
April 11, 2016
—Jeannine Bell
Many tellings of the Civil Rights Movement story omit how ferociously white individuals and institutions resisted the change that black activists demanded.
Unnatural disasters and environmental injustice
April 6, 2016
—Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer
The recent tragedy involving toxic, lead-laced tap water in Flint, Michigan highlights the growing gulf between rich and poor, and majority and minority communities.