In The Atlantic, Peter Wehner recounts the case that the real problem is the moral depravity of the Republican Party as an essential institution in America’s two-party electoral democracy. Alas, he does not offer here a roadmap to some… Continue reading

History is replete with examples of losing candidates disputing their loss in good faith—because there were plausible fact-based arguments as to why they, rather than their opponents, were the true winners according to the applicable rules governing those elections.  Bush v.… Continue reading

From the Financial Times (behind paywall): Mexico’s populist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has turned his guns on foreign investors, the media and the business elite to rally his base and drive an anti-establishment message. But his latest target seems… Continue reading

Taegan Goddard from Politicalwire. From the article: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said he believes Attorney General Merrick Garland knows “what’s at stake here” when it comes to a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump from the Department of… Continue reading

This NYT story describes AOC’s intervention in Democratic primaries to attempt to take down Democratic incumbents, including from within the NY Democratic delegation of which she is a part. The story’s emphasis is on these unusual internecine conflicts in the… Continue reading

This week, I was honored to be part once again of the annual CEO Summit run by Jeff Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies at the Yale School of Management. The Summit brings together major corporate leaders, former high-ranking… Continue reading

A new study on the Supreme Court, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has been getting a fair amount of attention for its findings on the relationship over time between public opinion on major issues before… Continue reading