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- (3/29/20, 8:00pm ET) In the next two weeks there needs to be a serious discussion of whether some regional travel restrictions do make sense and could be made operational. We don't know the answer to the question, but it is imprudent in the extreme to fail to explore the question because it was (casually and irresponsibly) teased by President Trump.
Segregation of African-Americans todayStartling new interactive maps vividly show the depth and breadth of residential segregation in the U.S. at the state, county, census tract, and census block group levels in ways that most previous mapping has not.- For all the recent outrage at instance after instance of well-known public figures being found to have engaged in sexual harassment, there has been surprisingly little discussion of any changes to the law that would affect the vast majority of victims of harassment who work in the civilian labor force. Unknown to most people, there is a judge-invented doctrine that throws must victims out of court. That doctrine says that harassment is not actionable unless it is “severe or pervasive.” But any state or municipality friendly to civil rights can throw that doctrine in the trash bin where it belongs.