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Posted inPolitics
The Paranoid Style of Naomi Klein
The Doppleganger author has smart, cutting insights into the conspiratorial delusions of Naomi Wolf and today’s MAGA right. It’s too bad she can’t face her own.
Posted inPolitics
As 2023 Ends, Hold Your Political Pundits Accountable!
The Washington Monthly’s politics editor and columnist on the three big things he got right and one that didn’t quite hit the target.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Will Trump’s Disqualification Turn on Whether an 1869 Case Was Wrongly Decided?
How the ruling of Salmon P. Chase—senator, governor, and both Lincoln’s treasury secretary and chief justice—might affect whether the 45th president can be restored to the Colorado ballot.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s Laughable Claim of Immunity
Whether presidents may be charged with crimes while in office is a difficult question; whether former presidents may be charged is not.
Posted inPolitics
The Trump-Colorado Ballot Case Could Help Restore the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy
Or it could destroy it if the conservative justices restore him to the state’s ballot and let him delay—and possibly quash—the legal cases arrayed against him.
Posted inPolitics
Stop Whining About the “Kids Today”
Griping about youth is as old as Socrates and as up-to-date as Gaza protests. The best way to deal with it is to put a premium on civility and to listen to what the youth are saying.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Can Trump Delay His Way Out of Criminal Convictions?
The facts are against him but if he appeals the federal cases brought by Jack Smith, the special counsel, he just might.
Posted inLaw and Justice
What Do You Get When You Cross Samuel Alito with the State of Texas?
Two developments last week—a New York Times exposé on Supreme Court maneuvers to overturn Roe and a Texas woman compelled to deliver a fetus with a rare and fatal genetic defect—underscore the slipshod nature of the Dobbs ruling.
Posted inWar in the Mideast
Massive Evidence Collection in Hamas Rapes Could Be a Turning Point
Mobile phone videos, metadata, eyewitnesses, security cams—all that evidence may be a historic first in the prosecution of rape as a weapon of war.
