Ezra Klein discusses the dynamics of American conservatism in historical perspective. Plus, he helps illustrate a key problem that we have in thinking about American politics (IMHO).
Added historical context to ongoing conversations about American democracy.
They’re not missing and that points to a systemic issue
Doing the right thing on 1/6/20 doesn’t absolve him of being a key Trump enabler.
Two members of the presidential commission reach the conclusion that expansion is needed.
The matter of Executive Privilege and former Presidents is settled law.
Senator Romney and the latest edition of the senatorial pro-filibuster op/ed.
President Trump’s destruction of longstanding norms continues under his successor.
Overruling every case President Trump was involved in is getting silly.
We tend to focus on the wrong qualities in our early assessments.
What at first blush appears a case of hypocrisy and cancel culture is a violation of professional ethics.
HR1 is a national approach to expanding voter access. State legislatures are trying to both expand and restrict the vote as well.
The distance in accountability between the highest and the lowest must be shortened.
President Biden masterfully used the pageantry of the day to shatter the self-asserted Trumpian monopoly on patriotism.
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.
President-Elect Biden is planning a big first few days, Congress be damned.
The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.
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.