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The Chao Auditorium was packed. Students sat on the floor to make room and there was still standing room only. Community members gathered on Oct. 28 for an education about what has been happening to Black students and Black faculty at the University of Louisville.

Ricky Jones addressed the crowd. Jones is the Dr. Charles Parrish Jr. ...Read more

In the room where you watch football, what you call your "man cave," there's a painting on the wall.

Well, it's not really a painting. It's one of those pictures that looks like a painting. You bought it out of an online catalogue that sells cheese, summer sausage, fleece shirts that look like plaid flannel, and night-lights in the shape of ...Read more

"It is one of the weakest election lawsuits I've ever seen," Professor Richard Pildes, an NYU professor who has seen them all, said of the Justice Department's preemptive lawsuit attempting to block the Alaska Senate results -- if the Republican loses. "It should have no realistic chance of success in the courts," he told The New York Times.

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Pick a Thanksgiving table, any Thanksgiving table in America, and it's sure to have a turkey and a grumpy uncle.

Sometimes they are one and the same, stuffed with all the trimmings.

As the midterms draw near, this November will be an especially heated month, right? We the people are so deeply carved down the center. There's no moderate ...Read more

E-I-E-I-O! If Republican agriculture policy were a crop, farmers would plow it under. Why? Because it's worthless.

Worse than worthless, GOP policy: No. 1: bilks taxpayers to pay billions of dollars a year to bail out the biggest corporate farms; No. 2: it forces productive family farmers out of business by intentionally eliminating their ...Read more

The new Supreme Court term began on Oct. 5, and the ACLU is shaping up to have another busy term, perhaps even topping our busiest term ever last year when the Supreme Court decided six ACLU cases on the merits docket.

Before the term even started, the ACLU had a flurry of action on the Supreme Court's emergency docket, where parties who have...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Once upon a time, a theory made waves in political science courses that it didn't matter who the president was because the U.S. government was so mighty that it would run itself without any one person in charge.

That's ridiculous. I hope that professor lived to see what hell we're burning in now. His grade: F.

One man has ...Read more

You probably won't believe this, boys and girls, but there was a time when government regulatory officials believed it was their public duty to -- get this -- serve the public!

How? By enforcing laws intended to protect consumers, workers, the environment and other targets of raw corporate greed. Today, though, far-right plutocrats behind ...Read more

No one has been more famously obstinate about disregarding the truth when it interfered with a preferred narrative than the otherwise obscure Republican congressman from Indiana, Earl Landgrebe, who made it plain in 1974 that he didn't care a whit about President Richard Nixon's guilt. "Don't confuse me with the facts," Landgrebe said when ...Read more

Why on earth did Ford stop making its heralded electric truck? As Americans shudder at high gasoline prices, prospective truck buyers are lining up at car lots to buy used F-150 Lightning and other electric vehicles. Ford stopped making the F-150 Lightning last December.

There are several reasons American automakers pulled back from an ...Read more

A grieving mother had her children ripped away without warning in the wake of a family tragedy in Georgia in July 2024. After her son died by suicide, the state obtained an emergency order to immediately remove her surviving children -- with no notice, no hearing and no finding that the children were in any danger. In the same state, a ...Read more

If you want a one-word answer to how the president is approaching this election, I'll give you my favorite. Kentucky. That's it. He has exactly one public event scheduled on Saturday -- a rally in Kentucky. Kentucky, a state that President Donald Trump carried by 30 points two years ago. Kentucky, a state he handily carried in 2016 and 2020. ...Read more

Trump's decision to back out of his planned public execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter is sad for America. Not because it wouldn't have been a gruesome spectacle that eroded whatever is left of the country's international standing -- it would have. Not because Nidal Hasan won't still be killed on Dec. 3 -- he will.

"Many very good and ...Read more

I thought the University of Louisville had listened.

Two years ago, the university hosted public meetings about the prospect of developing Stansbury Park, a historic Olmsted-designed park at the edge of campus. The community pushed back, and the idea seemed to disappear.

Then, in August, U of L President Gerry Bradley listed Stansbury Park ...Read more