Jim Caton lives in Southeast Michigan where he teaches English and works as a freelance writer. A graduate of Wayne Law School, he writes on matters of constitutional law, public policy and international affairs. He is currently at work on a book of economic and social criticism entitled Ass Backward.
Last Thursday the Supreme Court denied a challenge to the University of Texas at Austin’s affirmative action policy. The decision was met with relief by colleges and universities across the country with similar programs and hailed in the media as “a major victory” for supporters of affirmative action. What goes unspoken on college campuses and
Two wars are racing toward us. Each will be global in scale. Each will bring unimaginable waves of suffering and destruction down upon the world’s people. One can be seen approaching now in the lightning of the protests in France, the massacre of teachers in Mexico, and the separation of Britain from the European Union.
Trump’s nondisclosure agreements are cause for concern. With the recent firing of his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump returns to the public’s attention the matter of his notorious employee nondisclosure agreements. These agreements, in turn, bring to our attention the profoundly anti-democratic ideas Trump fosters about what the public has a right to know
Senate Votes to Include Women in Selective Service The Senate Tuesday voted to require women to register with the Selective Service System, which would make them eligible for a future military draft. The measure comes in the form of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 and passed the Senate
Obama Would Have Put Muhammad Ali in Jail Muhammad Ali was a bad man. He was a pretty man. He was the greatest of all time. He said so himself, and the man knew what he was talking about. The former heavyweight champion of the world died Friday of septic shock at a Scottsdale, Arizona
Death and a Donut. Every Memorial Day, our neighborhood association holds a parade. The weather, it seems, is always perfect, a high blue sky with a warm sun and a fresh breeze. For eight years, my daughters and I have walked the couple blocks to the same spot, sitting on the curb under a sugar
Ralph Nader encourages us to break through the power, and he believes we can do it. For more than fifty years, Ralph Nader has been a man on a mission. It was fifty years ago that the consumer advocate and erstwhile presidential candidate published his groundbreaking book, Unsafe at Any Speed. This http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/20/ralph-naders-democracy-crusadeweek, Nader celebrated
Left Is Right: Double-Thinking About Donald Trump. “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them…” –George Orwell, 1984 Official American politics, the spectrum that runs from “ultra-liberal”
Now there is an agency rule that takes a bite out of mandatory arbitration clauses. And high time. Admit it. Sometimes, late at night, it’s just you and your laptop, and you get to feeling a little curious. Or maybe just bored. Either way, who hasn’t had the experience at least once of taking a
Arguments were heard in Detroit’s federal District Court in a lawsuit claiming that the State of Michigan and the City of Flint are moving too slowly to resolve Flint’s water crisis. Residents in the city are still using bottled water for drinking, cooking and bathing. Federal officials claim the water is safe to drink if