If you need a break from impeachment trial fatigue and are interested in American foreign policy, I have a reading recommendation for you, and you don’t even have to click on a link—it directly follows this paragraph. It’s a review ...
Read MoreAlan Dershowitz had already put himself outside the mainstream of constitutional legal thought with his claim that a president could be impeached only because of criminal or “criminal-like” (whatever that means) behavior. But that wasn’t enough; in his defense of ...
Read MoreThere are two articles of impeachment lodged against Trump. Both are very strong, but the second is even stronger than the first. There is really only one plausible line of defense against the charge of impeachment based on abuse of ...
Read MoreIt was upsetting to see Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in a dispute that could only hurt the chances of one of them becoming their party’s presidential nominee. I mostly blame Warren, who is my preferred candidate. Whatever Bernie said ...
Read MoreJust a short post today to pass on two reading recommendations that put the current crisis with Iran in useful perspective. If you read nothing else on the crisis in the next couple of days, you should take a look ...
Read More“We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.” So said the stable genius who occupies the White House. His Secretary of State similarly claimed that Americans are safer now, even ...
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