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Guest Post by Neil Roberts Not guilty. The force of those two words, delivered on July 13, 2013, by the six-person jury in the State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman case, nationally and globally ignited already intense domestic debates about race, Stand Your Ground laws, gun control, and the strictures of federalism demarcating distinct domains between federal jurisprudence…
Following revelations about the reach of the United States government's controversial surveillance programs, groups representing publishers, booksellers, libraries, and authors have renewed their push for amendments to the USA Patriot Act. In a statement released yesterday, the Campaign for Reader Privacy said: The Campaign for Reader Privacy calls on Congress and on the President to take the…
Following revelations about the reach of the United States government's controversial surveillance programs, groups representing publishers, booksellers, libraries, and authors have renewed their push for amendments to the USA Patriot Act. In a statement released yesterday, the Campaign for Reader Privacy said: The Campaign for Reader Privacy calls on Congress and on the President to take the…
Guest post by Daniel Kilbride The summer tourist season is upon us. Travel today certainly has its frustrations. If Dante were to write The Inferno in our own time, he would certainly reserve a special circle of hell for the customer service employees of certain airlines. And anybody (like me, recently) who has ever had…
By Michele Callaghan, Manuscript Editing Ancient Greeks sometimes wrote as the plow goes, first right to left and then left to right—with no spaces between words. Somewhere along the line someone had the great idea that adding space to separate words would aid in readability. Maybe it was when writing went from being a series…
Guest post by Ralph E. Eshelman “I have no hesitation in pronouncing that the whole of the Shores and Towns within this Vast Bay, not excepting the Capital itself will be wholly at your mercy, and subject if not to be permanently occupied, certainly to be successively insulted or destroyed at your Pleasure.” Rear Admiral…
Guest post by Ralph E. Eshelman “I have no hesitation in pronouncing that the whole of the Shores and Towns within this Vast Bay, not excepting the Capital itself will be wholly at your mercy, and subject if not to be permanently occupied, certainly to be successively insulted or destroyed at your Pleasure.” Rear Admiral…
The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. Guest post by Susan J. Noonan, M.D., M.P.H. Many people find that the symptoms of major depression or bipolar depression come and go in a pattern that is unique to them and fairly…
The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. Guest post by Susan J. Noonan, M.D., M.P.H. Many people find that the symptoms of major depression or bipolar depression come and go in a pattern that is unique to them and fairly…
By Tashina Gunning, Project MUSE Early on Friday, June 27, more than 2,000,000 people descended upon the streets of Chicago for one of the grandest celebrations in the city’s history. Most of them wore red, some dressed in hockey sweaters, others opted for bikini tops on the hot summer day, but all beamed with hometown…