The distance in accountability between the highest and the lowest must be shortened.
Some marginal Republican formers are thinking about maybe doing somethingoranother.
Specifically: the former confederacy and Democratic dominance.
It is not a tool to foster compromise. It is tool of obstruction, plain and simple.
Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.
Biden’s America is a place and idea in which the trappings of empire or glory are ephemera in comparison with perennial human relationships—families; friendships; communities; schools; neighbors; partners.
The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,
The 45th President will go down in infamy, setting a record that’s unlikely to be broken.
The New England Patriots coach lived up to the team nickname.
There are multiple ongoing plots and reasonable fear of infiltration of security forces.
The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.
As we assess Trump’s role in all of this, it is important to think through what he did (and did not) do.
Trump’s lack of fealty to truth and reality gives supporters an out (if they choose it).
A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.
The President of the United States is a national security threat. Can we get rid of him now?
The President who promised to “Make America Great Again” has made her a laughingstock. And worse.
On the op/ed page of WaPo, the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense say things that shouldn’t have to be said.
The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.
It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.
Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.
Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.
The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.