Category: Politics
When Enough is Enough: The Trumping of the Courts
by Nan Aron | Jan 8, 2018 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell likes to tell the story about the time he looked President Barack Obama in the eye, after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, and told the president, by his own account, “You will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.” The announcement was supremely frustrating in the moment but is ominous […]
Team Trump’s Audacious “Complicity” Claim for Nullifying Abortion Rights
by Dorothy Samuels | Jan 4, 2018 | Health, PoliticsThe first anniversary of Donald Trump’s presidency will occasion lots of commentary on his administration’s jarring record—from the narcissist-in-chief’s tweets and glaring disregard for truth to the performance of federal departments and agencies under his crude and corrosive leadership. My aim here is to highlight one egregious sliver of that record that stands out for […]
Letters: French Lessons on How to Grow the Middle Class
by | Jan 1, 2018 | Foreign Policy, Legal AffairsTo The Editor: I recently read Steven Pressman’s article “French Lessons on How to Grow the Middle Class” (The Washington Spectator, August 2018) and was surprised to read that the middle class comprises 50% of the population. Frankly I thought that was high and I wondered if Mr. Pressman could define the middle class. Before I […]
Opioid Concerns Supplant Hopes for Broader Reform
by Heather Ann Thompson | Dec 26, 2017 | Health, PoliticsThere was a rare moment toward the end of the Obama administration when a bipartisan consensus formed. The issue? The dire need for criminal justice reform in this country. After a generation of harsh policies—more prisons, longer sentences, punitive drug laws—influential Republicans and Democrats alike had begun to concede that the system was a massive, […]
CBO Cost Estimation of Nuclear Modernization Omits Hazardous Cleanup
by Robert Alvarez | Dec 20, 2017 | Environment, PoliticsWith its $1.2 trillion price tag for the modernization of the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal and production complex, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office has induced “sticker shock” on Capitol Hill. Yet despite this enormous projected cost for rebuilding the U.S. triad of land, submarine, and bomber nuclear forces, the CBO has in fact lowballed its […]
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