Ishaan Tharoor has a very good discussion of the broader context of Trump’s meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda. Though accustomed to lectures from Brussels, Duda and his allies are hopin
As my spouse pointed out this morning, it’s certainly eyebrow-raising that on the same day Trump initiated a phone call with Putin he also ordered Federal law enforcement to cosplay as OMON. Put
We really are living through Nixon redux. Except with an idiot playing the part of Nixon and a totally plaint congress. The Trump White House and its allies, over the past 18 months, assembled detaile
Tom Pepinski, who wrote a terrific post on the banality of life under soft authoritarian regimes, has a new piece entitled “If American Democracy Collapsed, You Almost Certainly Wouldn’t Notic
It’s no fun being right about how Trump’s authoritarian dispositions will play out when his back is against the wall. As Paul Waldman points out, things could get much, much worse. So get
As Scott notes, the Wisconsin Republican legislature is on the brink of engaging in an “abuse of power” that underscores how “extreme gerrymandering” of the kind found in Wisco
On May 11, 2017 Trump disclosed, during an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, that he fired the Director of the FBI, James Comey, in an effort to interfere with an ongoing investigation into a po
I put a poll up on Twitter with the aim of provoking some discussion. If the United States dissolved tomorrow, leaving 50 independent states, how many would qualify as “fully” or “mostly” demo