I read the initial article in The Crimson confident that the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., would make waves far beyond Cambridge, Mass. Allegations of racial profiling mounted; the charges were ultimately dropped. But let’s not forget, as Stanford Law School professor Ralph Richard Banks wrote in The Times, that the police did exactly what … Read more
You know who is one of the most dependable Democrats in the Senate right now? Arlen Spector (D-PA). It does not take any great insight to figure out why that is; Spector is rightly afraid of a successful primary challenge from Joe Sestak over his insufficient progressivism. On the Republican side of the aisle is … Read more
So in some areas (civil liberties and wars come to mind), there is not so much daylight to be found between President Obama and his predecessor. But in other areas that are not always so visible, it is clear that Obama does intend to pursue a somewhat ambitious liberal agenda. And one of those extremely … Read more