The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia
My childhood home was equidistant between two of the Grateful Dead’s regular Bay Area venues:…
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8 Bill Maher Statements For UC Berkeley To Consider Before Commencement
The brouhaha over Bill Maher’s recent remarks about Islam and Muslims is growing weirder by…
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John Yoo and Jay Bybee Dodge Disciplinary Action but Recall Nuremberg
Justice Department attorney David Margolis rejected the recommendations of the investigation into the actions of two Bush-era lawyers claiming that the infamous ‘torture memo’ simply constituted ‘poor judgment.’ But John Yoo’s arguments are eerily reminiscent of the Nuremberg Defense and both men still face the judgment of international law and history.
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Some protesters are calling for the firing of tenured Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo. Is that the right thing to do?
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