After New Hampshire
Under the topsy turvy system by which we choose our presidential nominees, primaries in just two states-–one small, one medium-sized and both demographic outliers among our United States—have significantly simplified and clarified the Democratic race. The simplification: two long shot ...
Read MoreDemocrats Divided (or maybe not so much)
Just a short post today to link to a strong reading recommendation: a fine essay on recent American politics by the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne. Dionne makes an important point that should be obvious: the differences between moderate and progressive ...
Read MoreHow progressive is realism?
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 MoreWhat’s with Dershowitz?
Alan 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 MoreThe Defensible and the Indefensible
There 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 MoreThe Sanders Warren Divide
It 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 MoreMore on Iran
Just 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 MoreWar is Peace
“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 ...
Read MoreCentrist Bias
Just a quickie today: Since I always love seeing well-established pundits take up themes I have previously written about, I have to direct you to David Leonhardt’s excellent op-ed. in today’s NY Times. After you’ve read Leonhardt, you might want ...
Read MoreWhich Democrat for 2020?
Who should be the Democratic nominee to oppose Donald Trump’s re-election? That question boils down to two: who among the Democratic aspirants would make the best president, and who would be the strongest candidate against Trump? The answers to these ...
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