From Allan Bloom’s lecture halls to the Iraq War’s intellectual wreckage, a memoir of how a neoconservative movement insider became a dissenter.
Dick Cheney
Posted inNovember/December 2024
Who Will Protect the Watchdogs?
Inspectors general have fought for accountability in U.S. government for decades, with varying success. They will be prime targets in a second Trump administration.
Posted inPolitics
How Will Biden Pass the Baton at the Democratic Convention?
How Will Biden Pass the Baton at the Democratic Convention? I helped write Bill Clinton’s 2000 convention speech for Al Gore. Here’s how the president can make his ode to Harris sing.
Posted inLaw and Justice
A Rare Inside Look at Our Corrupt Supreme Court
Rob Schenck, the evangelical pastor turned spymaster, has unearthed how the high court really works and highlights the need for Congress and the public to rein in the rogue justices.
Posted inBooks
Patrick Leahy’s Long and Winding Road
At 83, the Vermonter is retiring after 48 years in the U.S. Senate, and in his new memoir, he somehow finds hope for the chamber—and the country.
Posted inPolitics
Does Liz Cheney Have a Future?
Despite the admiration she’s earned for her courage and resolve, Cheney doesn’t have a lot of ways to bring down Trump—except maybe one.
Posted inPolitics
Meadows Aide Describes Trump Madhouse to January 6 Committee
Cassidy Hutchinson’s riveting testimony.
Posted inPolitics
The Watergate Anniversary and the Liz and Dick Cheney Paradox
The Watergate scandal, now 50, was the executive and congressional showdown of its time. Today, as Liz Cheney investigates Donald Trump, her father bears much of the blame for Trump’s imperial presidency.
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Conservatives Have No Plan To Win the Culture War. They Intend to Rule Anyway.
Republicans would have to make changes to win the hearts and minds of the young. They have no intention of doing that. They intend to kill democracy, instead.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Liz Cheney Is Playing a Long Game Beyond 2024
Exiled from Republican House Leadership, she really does have a plausible path to GOP domination—but it will take more than four years.
