Новости за 11.06.2020

Mark Milley is sorry. For the photo op, not the invasion of American streets with soldiers.

Running along the southern border of North Carolina, U.S. Route 74 stretches from the state’s mountains in the west all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. And as numerous green signs reminded me while driving it last week, its official state designation is still “Andrew Jackson Highway”—an honor granted to the seventh United States president in 1963, in part because of a low-simmering feud with South Carolina about Jackson’s true birthplace. But after driving east for a couple hours, a new green sign appears at the Robeson County line. Читать дальше...

Labor unions throughout history have worked toward multiple goals. While striving to represent and protect workers through collective bargaining, they also function as part of a broader movement aiming to build a world that’s better for workers. Influenced in part by rising socialism—and often socialists themselves—early and mid-twentieth-century labor leaders including A. Philip Randolph and Walter Reuther talked in visionary terms about what an ideal society should look like. But building an ideal society has always been tricky work. Читать дальше...

The police killing of George Floyd has prompted a stunning increase in the public’s receptivity to the Black Lives Matter movement (which has picked up eight percentage points in public approval since Memorial Day). Just as noteworthy, though, is a parallel rise in support for more wide-ranging policy solutions to address the broader problem of racial and ethnic discrimination, as The New York Times has recently reported. So while this underlying range of issues has our attention, let’s consider the striking... Читать дальше...

“I’m sorry,” the Vox writer Zack Beauchamp tweeted last week, “but ‘abolish the police’ seems like a poorly-thought out idea that’s gotten popular with shocking speed.” A short thread of similar tweets followed, all poised tonally somewhere between Vox’s customary arch expertisery—Beauchamp noted “a weird motte-bailey maneuver” from abolitionists on the question of actually abolishing police forces—and a classically wonkish contempt for the unrealistic. Fellow Voxman German Lopez followed up by... Читать дальше...

Derek Chauvin learned how to be a cop from the Department of Defense. For eight years, Chauvin served as a military police officer in the Army Reserve, and though he never rose above the rank of E-4—a junior pay grade granted to most entry-level soldiers within a year or two—he played up his military credentials on his application to be a Minneapolis police officer in 2001, according to Stars and Stripes. In his time on the force, he accrued at least 17 misconduct complaints. Then, on May 25,... Читать дальше...

In 2013, for reasons that remain unclear, the Supreme Court of the United States changed its rules to forbid non-lawyers from arguing before the Court. The shift stripped away a right that had been in place for more than 200 years. The option to represent oneself in “any court” in the nation was established with the First Judiciary Act in 1789, and reaffirmed in a revamp of the laws in 1949. Hollywood dramas aside, it’s generally held that representing yourself in legal matters is not a good idea, but the possibility was always there. Читать дальше...