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Supreme Court backs Democrats in Louisiana

1 year 1 month ago
Today brings yet more evidence that the Supreme Court is not quite the conservative steamroller we often make it out to be: The Supreme Court restored a congressional voting map in Louisiana on Wednesday that includes an additional majority-Black district, handing a victory to African American voters and Democrats less than six months before the ...continue reading "Supreme Court backs Democrats in Louisiana"
Kevin Drum

The Glass Bar at Hotel Midtown

1 year 1 month ago
On June 1, 1937, City Hospital No. 2, located at the corner of Lawton and Garrison Avenues in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood, was emptied. The cramped and stuffy corridors of the hospital fell silent. A parade of ambulances for the critically injured and buses for those who could walk ferried patients across the nearly …
Brittany Krewson