This win serves as a reminder that it is not only our right but also our civic duty to reform our government through our votes and other legal means if we see unethical practices ...
No Kings” protests across Maine and the United States were followed by the release of the movie “A House of Dynamite.” The movie makes very clear — in a tense, dramatic way — that the president of the ...
In a comment to my recent article about how much Trump-like corruption the American people will tolerate, Sabrina Haake (who ...
Commentary: This is not a partisan argument. It is about the belief that liberty depends on strong institutions, not powerful ...
Some of the Founders saw the danger, but they lost the argument. George Mason of Virginia was one of them. He refused to sign ...
Across the world, the defining political struggle isn’t left versus right — it’s whether institutions can restrain leaders who demand personal loyalty over constitutional limits. In Hungary, Turkey ...
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Presidents and pardons

The president can do this or that, but the courts and Congress can put a stop to it (depending on the circumstances and relevant rules). When the courts rule that the executive branch can’t do ...
Dr. Lucie Opatrny, president and CEO of McGill University Health Centre, discusses how one of the largest academic health ...
Former U.S. Navy Officer Michael Bedenbaugh is sounding the alarm that the United States remains at risk of authoritarian ...
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Epstein, Trump, and the Era of Elite Impunity

This week, we all moved a couple steps closer to finally getting a peek at what’s been the year’s biggest political MacGuffin: the Epstein files. The long-delayed swearing in of Arizona Representative ...
Our country is going through one of those bad, explosive times when accusations take the place of proof, and anger overtakes ...
Welcome to “What’s Good,” a column where we break down the soothing, distracting, or just plain good film and TV with a ...