A Wonderful Article -- I Hope It's True!

Great article from Charles Pierce writing in Esquire -- I like what he says and I hope it's true.

From the site:

The country’s head is clearing. The country’s vision is coming back into focus and it can see for the first time the length and breadth of the damage it has done to itself. The country is hearing the voices that the cacophony of fear and anger had drowned out for almost three years. The spell, such as it was, and in most places, may be wearing off at last. The hallucinatory effect of a reality-show presidency* is dispersing like a foul, smoky mist over a muddy battlefield.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a21775485/migrant-child-crisis-trump-presidency/

Jeffrey Toobin on the Supreme Court Husted Decision

Good article from Jeffrey Toobin re the Husted (Ohio voter law) decision. He points out that the Republicans know very well that the Ohio system (contacting voters via post card and removing them from the roles if they don't respond) disproportionately affects lower income voters. 

https://goo.gl/B1hthi

Great Book by Ian Millhiser

I have been greatly enjoying this book by Ian Millhiser. He takes you through the whole history of the Supreme Court and shows us how the justices have generally stood in the way (with exceptions of course) of racial equality. The exceptions are the Reconstruction period and our modern era since the 1950s. There was virtually no activity addressing racial justice in between these two time periods.