Guns, the NRA and the Obama Opposition

Guns, the NRA and the Obama Oppositionby Leonard ZeskindGuns, ammo and paraphernalia were bought and sold like baseball trading cards at sixty-one gun shows in twenty-seven states during the ten days between August 14 and August 23.  Certainly, there are still sportsmen...

The Birthers and the 14th Amendment

The Zeskind Fortnight No. 19 by Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart [Devin Burghart, my colleague at the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, joined in researching, writing and thinking through this Fortnight. Thank you Devin.] Taking umbrage at the...

Rereading the Tea Leaves

Rereading the Tea LeavesJuly 4 Protests Will Include White Nationalistsby Leonard Zeskind on Huffington PostOn July 4, tens of thousands of mostly middle-class white people in hundreds of different cities will register their opposition to the Barack Obama presidency...