“Fight, fight, fight!” These were the words of a bloodied Donald Trump as Secret Service agents helped him to his feet yesterday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, immediately after an assassination attempt in which one person in the crowd was killed instantly and two were critically wounded. The former president was struck in the […]

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These hot, early summer days have brought with them a sudden torrent of fast-breaking political news. Was Biden’s poor showing in the debate an off night, is he failing, can he govern. How will our republic fare following the Supreme Court’s decision granting full immunity to the president for official actions, and how will this […]

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As we head into the pithy core of the 2024 election season, institutionalists are alarmed, and with good reason. Our highest court just ruled (SEC vs. Jarkesy; overturning Chevron doctrine) that all federal agencies are effectively unconstitutional, and may imminently rule that former president Trump is immune from prosecution. The first presidential debate of 2024 […]

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It is hard to overstate what rests on the outcome of the 2024 election. Democracy probably; reproductive rights certainly. Also at stake is the well-being of the US economy, especially whether Americans can retire or must work until they drop. Before Social Security, seniors depended on their families and their savings. Those lacking adequate support […]

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The American Republic is ripe for a hostile takeover. In the go-go 1990s — when “the end of history,” the primacy of market economics and galloping globalization were dominant metaphors for elite commentators — a joke circulated around the Goldman Sachs trading floor that it was high time to take the United States of America […]

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