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Posted inLaw and Justice
How to Fix the Supreme Court
The time has come to connect popular anger over the conservative supermajority with concrete ideas for reform.
Posted inLaw and Justice
What John Roberts Could Learn From Niccolò Machiavelli
Instead of defusing the ethics crisis on the Supreme Court, the chief justice has allowed it to fester, ignoring sage advice from the great authority on power.
Posted inPolitics
In Rebuke to Hogan, Maryland Statehouse Passes Ethics Bill
After Washington Monthly exposé on the governor advancing infrastructure projects near properties he owns, lawmakers unanimously vote to strengthen the state’s disclosure laws.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Happy Trails, Ryan Zinke
The Interior Secretary be the fourth Trump Cabinet official to resign office while under an ethics investigation.
Posted inMagazine
Letters, May 1969
The political reporters who cover Presidential politics are the cream of Washington’s crop. The fact that even they have a “credibility gap,” in spite of their experience and sense of ethics, is in itself significant. In that connection, I note David Broder’s reference (The Washington Monthly, February 1969) to Hubert Humphrey’s walking arm in arm […]
