Alex Cooley and I published a piece at Foreign Affairs which discusses how international order is becoming more or less “liberal” across three dimensions: political rights, economic arrang
The Senate overrode Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act earlier today, by an 81-13 vote. Most of the chatter about the bill has focused on its provision to strike the names of
A few days ago, Anna Massoglia of the Center for Responsive Politics pointed out that the Trump campaign spent nearly $400,000 in one quarter at a Trump Hotel. This brings the total (disclosed) divers
The lesson is that there are no consequences for obstructing justice – so long as the GOP has at least 1/3 of the Senate. It gets better. Trump is nominating the current head of the SEC to replace B
The New York Times has acquired a leaked draft of John Bolton’s book. If true – and there’s no reason to believe that the story is wrong or that Bolton is lying about key details – it
Lev Parnas is a crook and a liar; he played a non-trivial role in spreading the web of lies at the heart of the Orange Extortion scandal. Marcy Wheeler writes that: Over and over, we see Parnas feedin
I still find it hard to believe that a minority of American voters, located in just the right places to activate flaws in our electoral system, gave the awesome power of the U.S. government over to a
Hiroko Tabuchi and Coral Davenport in the New York Times: The Justice Department has opened an antitrust inquiry into the four major automakers that struck a deal with California this year t