Ken Scott Baron Podcast

The Supreme Court rules against people at the margins in three cases. These are harsh  measures that deal blows to students and LGBT people. We live in two countries now: one in which basic civil and human rights are recognized and enshrined in law, and another in which ideological extremists can decide how everyone else […]

The Supreme Court, surprised us deciding that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters by drawing a congressional voting map with a single district in which they made up a majority. Chief Justice Roberts  wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 ruling. He was joined by Kavanaugh and the court’s three liberal members, Sotomayor, […]

America’s regular mass shootings leads to the hand-wringing that our politics is so polarized that there’s no way to move forward. AR-15-style rifles may be here to stay, so    which have some bipartisan consensus. There is substantial progress, but now we need more. The F.B.I.’s Background Check System, stitches together three databases of state […]

Uganda’s Parliament passed a sweeping anti-gay bill in late March that threatens punishment as severe as death for some perceived offenses, and calls for life in prison for anyone engaging in same-sex relations. The authorities kept saying, ‘We will hunt you. You gays should be killed. We will slaughter you,’” he said. “There was no […]

Women were instrumental in helping during the AIDS crisis, and so I am always an ally in the fight for women’s rights. Since a federal judge in Texas last week invalidated the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, states led by Democrats have been scrambling to adjust to a possible […]

Two victories important to progressives occurred this week. Wisconsin Supreme Court, and Chicago Mayoral campaign. Wisconsin voters on Tuesday chose to upend the political direction of their state by electing a liberal candidate Judge Janet Protasiewicz to the State Supreme Court, flipping majority control from conservatives. The result means that in the next year, the […]

The nominations for the 2023 Academy Awards were announced early Tuesday morning. Best in class Netflix’s German war movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” and the Irish dark comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” with 9 and “Elvis” with 8 My husband and I always take time in each winner to see the potential nominees […]

Anti-Black redefined as pro-equality, anti-gay as pro-family and anti-immigrant as pro-American. In Tallahassee a march happened protesting DeSantis’s crusade against everything “woke,” a concept defined as “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.” DeSantis’s obsession has led him from attacking critical race theory to, now, restricting the […]

The killing of Tyree Nichols, a Black man in Memphis, at the hands of Black police should prompt outrage and condemnation from racial justice activists, police reform advocates and law enforcement officials. Problems of race and policing are a function of an entrenched police culture of aggression and dehumanization of Black people.  It is the […]

In my last blog I talked abut rural resentment which has become a central fact of American politics and  supported for the rise of right-wing extremism. I attributed this rural resentment to perceptions that rural areas are ignored by policymakers, don’t get their fair share of resources and are disrespected by “city folks.” And then, […]