May 28, 2023 Ultra Violence Nelson Lichtenstein Dissent Rachel Maddow’s podcast tells the story of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the spectacular growth of a national security state.
May 7, 2023 The Persistent Allure of Military Coups John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus Sudan is in yet another civil war. Can it put military rule behind it once and for all?
May 6, 2023 The Fed, the Supreme Court, and Their Legitimacy Max Moran American Prospect/The Revolving Door Project The government’s least democratic branches are incompetent and corrupt because they are unaccountable. James Madison would not be surprised…
April 23, 2023 How Much Power Should the Courts Have? Emily Bazelon New York Times In Israel, the United States and other democracies, bitter battles are being waged over the same question.
April 10, 2023 The American Civil War Ended on This Day. It Should Be a National Holiday Steve Phillips Guardian Rather than celebrate this milestone of multiracial democracy, our leaders conspicuously ignore the occasion
April 10, 2023 Ecuador: Murder of Key Witness in Investigation of President Lasso, Others, Raises More Questions CEPR Witness Was Close Associate of Lasso’s Inner Circle, Business Partners, and Campaign Donors
April 2, 2023 Breaking Away From Secret Concessions in the Middle East Jon Hoffman, Sarah Leah Whitson The American Prospect Saudi Arabia is exploiting great-power competition to obtain security commitments from the U.S. This should be rejected.
March 29, 2023 Global Left Midweek – March 29, 2023 Portside Movements and parties grapple with democracy, cost-of-living and shifting power arrangements
March 19, 2023 How the ‘Holman Rule’ Allows the House to Fast-Track Proposals To Gut Government Programs Without Debate or Much Thought at All Charles Tiefer The Conversation Reinstituted rules in the U.S. House of Representatives allow members to fire federal staffers and cut programs.
March 19, 2023 The Supreme Court Conservatives’ Favorite New Weapon for Kneecapping the Administrative State Matt Ford The New Republic Why a relatively young legal doctrine has become all the rage among the court’s right-wing majority
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