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8 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm
Faced with a blizzard of illogical, strange, bad-faith arguments coming from Senate Republicans in advance of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, one might think that there has to be at least something to their arguments. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
The recent government shutdown was mercifully brief, but it did provide some interesting lessons in the current state of politics for Donald Trump and for Republicans and Democrats in Congress. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
In the chaos of our current political era, it can be difficult to stay on top of—or even to remember—all of the dangerous statements and policies that Donald Trump issues daily from his perch in the Oval Office. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm
The U.S. economy has lost at least 22 million jobs over the past month, with the unemployment rate headed to Great Depression-level heights. [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
In a column published here on Verdict last week, I explained how Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is supposedly the bane of capitalists everywhere, in fact understands that modern capitalist economies can be much better than they are for the people who work and live in them.Warren certainly targets the bad acts of particular capitalists, but she does so in order to prevent them from continuing to pervert the economy for their own selfish ends. [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm
During the Great Recession and its immediate aftermath, there was serious concern about whether the world would see a turn away from the rule of law, with totalitarian movements rising in response to economic catastrophe.That concern was well founded, based on historical experience. [read post]
20 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm
Senator Joe Manchin betrayed his own stated principles, to say nothing of stabbing his president and his Democratic colleagues in the collective back, this past weekend. [read post]
24 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
The shockwaves of the British public’s narrow 2016 vote to leave the European Union continue to roil the United Kingdom, with fraught negotiations seeming to go nowhere in advance of the hard deadline in late March for the country to make its exit. [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
Two caucuses and two primaries, in states containing less than four percent of the nation’s population, have already narrowed the Republican presidential race down to three men with extremist views on a wide variety of issues: Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
It is no mystery why it has been almost two years since I have written about Social Security here on Verdict. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
With Senate Republicans having now acquitted Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, we can expect Trump to increase his abuse of power and even more brazenly obstruct Congress. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
With everything else that is going wrong in the country and the world in 2020, the one policy issue that I imagined was simply not going to pop back up on the radar screen was Social Security. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
What happens when one political party decides to declare war on the nation’s tax collection agency? [read post]
17 May 2020, 9:01 pm
Will Republicans continue to block federal disaster relief to America’s states and cities? [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
There are many, many things to worry about in the world right now. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 5:00 am
Is the United States still, as I recently put it, a “Dead Democracy Walking”? [read post]
5 Sep 2019, 9:12 pm
One of the puzzling contradictions about higher education in America is that it continues to be a great individual investment even as it has become more and more difficult for individuals to afford. [read post]
31 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
[Note to readers: The publication date for this column is April 1. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm
For the last four and a half years, I have been predicting that Donald Trump would never leave office. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm
Writing in a public forum—as I do here at Verdict and on Dorf on Law—is a privilege that I never take for granted. [read post]
