All posts tagged "Yale Law School"

A new piece in The Atlantic laid out how Vice President JD Vance made a deliberate decision to "betray his true values" rooted in Appalachia in order to go full MAGA alongside Donald Trump when the political timing was right.

Journalist George Packer examined Vance's rise from the working class in a de-industrialized Ohio town to the hallowed halls of Yale Law School, writing that Vance was "tasked with explaining the world he came from to the world he recently joined."

Packer argued that Vance's unique understanding of both worlds plus his "gifts of intellect and rhetoric" could have been used to bring "the country’s conflicting strands together."...

WASHINGTON — The US Senate confirmed businessman John Bryson as commerce secretary, replacing Gary Locke, who left the post to become the US ambassador to China.

WASHINGTON – Leonard Weinglass, a lawyer who gained notoriety representing US left-wing activists including the Chicago Seven and Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg, has died at 78, his law associate said Thursday.