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It, too, can be checked and balanced.
Make use of the constitutional system.
How much credit should he get for doing the bare minimum?
If the tables were turned, Republicans would not hesitate to use every argument, and every tool, at their disposal.
Millions of Democratic voters can see and feel that American politics has changed in profound ways since at least the 1990s.
The spectacle is the message.
There are minorities whose interests are harmed by majority rule. But they are not minorities as we tend to think of them; they are elites.
Conservatives need to explain their logic on gun safety.
The filibuster is only one part of the larger problem of the capture of America’s political institutions by an unrepresentative minority.
Viktor Orban’s Hungary has a lot to offer them.
When they do, they just want to change the rules.
Republicans want to write Democrats out of the body politic.
Neither did the slaughter in Pittsburgh or El Paso.
Gathering near the homes of public officials is not a new trend.
No one wages a generational battle to reshape American society for the sake of a partial victory.
It is easier to reconcile than you might think.
Whatever legitimacy it had retained was sacrificed in the drive to build the majority that seems poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
There was a slim window to force them to act. It passed.
The only alternative to fighting is losing.
They profess to be constitutional conservatives. But that isn’t quite the whole story.
Taking a close look at John Marshall and the Marbury v. Madison case.
The scope of judicial review is itself part of the problem.
The successful organization of a warehouse in Staten Island offers a real glimmer of hope for the American working class.
What happened to the Black community in East St. Louis?
Our politicl system was the primary obstacle to protecting the lives and livelihoods of its own citizens.
There’s very little distance between the fringes of the modern Republican Party and the elites who lead it.
On the dishonest questioning during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings.
The Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings unleashed some deeply retro Senatorial opinions.
There’s a reason Madison was a federalist.
On Tocqueville and the ostracism that accompanies dissent.
A breathtaking claim about the nature of state legislative power was rejected. But for how long?
Sometimes it is better to listen than to speak.
There is no real relationship between crime rates and police budgets.
A new CBS poll is revealing.
Having immobilized the president’s agenda and plunged their party into disarray, moderate and conservative Democrats are casting around for someone...
The two releases of “Cape Fear” couldn’t be more different — and it’s what makes them so revealing.
The teaching of history is under siege.
We have better things to fret over.
Unraveling the characteristics of race today requires an understanding of history.
Looking at the history and purpose of race in the modern world.
The suppression and subversion of Black history in favor of an inauthentic rendering of the American past has a long history in and of itself.
To the extent that Biden has been open about the politics and the optics of this nomination, I think he’s done a service for the public.
It lasted so long because there was money to be made.
Data science is unlocking new insights about the slave system in the United States. But is there a danger in trying to quantify evil?
Find the people doing good work in your own community and help them do it.
We all want liberty. The question is what we each want to do with it,
The disasters that struck in Kentucky and Illinois cannot be separated from the overall political economy of the United States.