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Follow David on Twitter @DavidOAtkins. David Atkins is a Washington Monthly contributing writer, activist, and research professional living in Santa Barbara as well as an elected DNC Member from California. He is president of The Pollux Group, a qualitative research firm.
Trump has turned a constitutional safeguard into a corruption free-for-all, making an amendment to rein in pardon powers necessary—and even plausible.
The president’s words on Cuba, the next nation he’s casing for foreign intervention, sound all too familiar.
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Any attempt by the president to unilaterally withdraw from the NATO treaty violates U.S. law.
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We’re depleting our big, expensive, Cold War-inspired defensive weapons on Iran’s cheap drones, and if Tehran expands its underwater drone program, look out.
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One thing it can do is chronicle how women, from ordinary citizens to Martha Washington, preserved their communities’ past.
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Its rebuke of Trump tariffs might mean serious problems for other Trump initiatives. Much depends on the Court’s internal fight over the “major questions doctrine.”
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Historian and journalist Tim Weiner on how ideology is the enemy of intelligence, not just for Trump in Iran but for every American president.
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