In brief, why not: It is a struggle to understand a way in which an attack on Syria is legal, barring an act of Congress. It seems unlikely that airstrikes alone will be sufficient to unseat the Assad
Last week: The Trump administration doubled down Thursday on prioritizing the fight against ISIS over ending the Syrian civil war and getting rid of its main protagonist, President Bashar al-Assad
100 years ago today, the United States entered World War I. The historian Michael Kazin argues that this was a disaster. I don’t per se disagree, but I’m not really comfortable with the re
You almost have to give McConnell credit for being arguably the single most cynical politician in American history. He makes Gingrich look like a piker. In recent decades, I suppose George Wallace and
The idea that Democrats are bad at midterm turnout doesn’t really hold water. What holds water is that the party in power is bad at midterm turnout. There is some effect of Democrats having slig
Anybody have any idea which recently deceased Italian-American judge Judge Posner might have had in mind when he wrote this in his Hively v. Ivy Tech concurrence? I would prefer to see us acknowledge
Politico reports that Neil Gorsuch’s academic writings “borrow” from other authors. This is the publication’s squeamish way of phrasing the fact that Gorsuch put his name* to t
This from Booman, is excellent: Now, the purpose of writing about Russia isn’t to hurt Trump’s poll numbers, but it certainly hasn’t been helping him. We can talk about agency, since obviously T