I much prefer policy to politics, but if you don’t get the politics right, you don’t get a chance to do policy. President Biden was not my first choice to be the Democratic nominee in 2020, but Democratic voters picked him primarily because he was the most likely candidate to beat ...
Republicans claim that deranged Democrats are so opposed to former President Donald Trump that they will do anything to keep him out of office, including “weaponizing” the law against him. The reality is that four different juries of American citizens have found credible evidence that ...
The reputation of the U.S. Supreme Court has been damaged recently by conflicts of interest and accusations of corruption, mostly centered around Justice Clarence Thomas. The investigative news outlet ProPublica recently carried a series in which it documented how wealthy Republican donors ...
By Kent James With the minor exception of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1950s and 1960s, the Court has historically been a conservative institution. Since the Supreme Court ignored its states’ rights ideology to overrule the Florida Supreme Court and stop ...
By Kent James The Republican Party has historically been the party of less government and low taxes, which is a coherent political philosophy. But since 1994, when Newt Gingrich helped Republicans take control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since the 1950s, ...
The third of three parts. By Kent James The Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack changed the existing dynamic in Israel, where the Israeli government had been gradually eliminating the possibility of a Palestinian state. The continuous construction of Israeli settlements on land that would ...
