Internet Archive Blogs – Preserving 30 Years of Salon Journalism

Nov 132026
 

When Salon launched in 1995, the web was still finding its voice. One of the first major publications born on the internet, Salon helped define a new kind of digital journalism, bringing together politics, culture, criticism, and ideas for a generation of online readers. After 31 years, Salon has announced that it is ceasing publication. But thanks to web archiving, the stories don’t have to disappear. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has been preserving Salon for nearly three decades—the online publication has been published over time at salon1999.com, salonmag.com and, since 1999, salon.com. Today, more than 250,000 Salon articles can be discovered through the Wayback Machine, representing a record of digital journalism and the conversations…

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Ballot Access News – Judge Richard Posner Dies

Nov 132026
 

Retired U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner died on November 10. He was more renowned that most Appellate Judges, and there are many obituaries for him. Unfortunately, he was a leading opponent of tolerant ballot access. He wrote four opinions, each one worse than the last. Three of them upheld severe Illinois restrictions, and one upheld a severe Indiana restriction.
In 1985 he wrote Hall v Simcox, an Indiana case filed by the Communist Party’s 1984 presidential nominee. Indiana had recently quadrupled its petition requirement. The Communist Party had been able to qualify under the old one-half of 1% standard, most recently in 1980. But the new requirement kept him off the ballot in 1984, when…

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