In Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1987 film The Last Emperor, there is a moment where the title character has a chance to return to power. After being banished from his palace for over a decade, Pu Yi, the child emperor of China, is offered a resurrected throne, complete with a dazzling court and an army to back him.
The Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated the Trump-inspired gerrymandered congressional map in Texas after it was blocked by a lower court, with the Roberts court once again putting its thumb on the scale to weaken protections for minority voters and entrench GOP political power. The conservative justices approved the Texas map, they wrote in an […]