A Fresh Look at Ted Kennedy’s Famous “Robert Bork’s America” Speech. The senator’s 1987 floor statement helped sink the jurist’s Supreme Court nomination and is considered by Republicans (and some Democrats) to have been unfair. Looking back, was it?
Robert Bork
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
As Election Day Approaches, Don’t Forget About the K Street Wolves
As Election Day Approaches, Don’t Forget About the K Street Wolves: The Wolves of K Street, the Spring hit from the Mullins Brothers, deserves a close read this summer as lobbyists salivate over the certainty of a new president this Autumn.
Posted inPolitics
What Joe Biden and LBJ Have in Common
Each saw the expansion of rights as key to their national ambitions, writes a noted historian. For LBJ, it was civil rights; for Biden, it was abortion.
Posted inMagazine
Limitations of Statute
The conservative Supreme Court is poised to dismantle the regulatory state. Representative Pramila Jayapal is the lone liberal fighting back.
Posted inPolitics
In the Judiciary Wars, Republicans Like Lindsey Graham Play Dirtier Than Democrats
The South Carolina senator whined about Democratic tactics all through Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearings. Oh, please.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, The Monopolized Economy
The FCC Has Untapped Powers. The Next Administration Needs to Use Them.
It won’t take a new communications act to give any Biden nominees the power to go after telecom and media monopolies.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Why Trump Can’t Get a Saturday Night Massacre Rolling
The president can’t find anyone willing to play the role of Robert Bork.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Royal Scam: A Press Corps at Its Lowest Point
Seriously, who gives a damn? The attention that American mainstream-media entities are giving to the worthlessness in Windsor Castle today is nothing short of repulsive, an indictment of the Fourth Estate’s fetish for frivolity over seriousness and substance, a worsening of the anti-intellectual trends in American culture. Why are we paying so much attention to […]
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Politics, The Monopolized Economy
The ‘Borking’ of America
Robert Bork set in motion pro-monopoly policies that have ravaged the middle class, particularly in small-town and rural America.
