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10 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm
I argued in a recent Verdict column that Donald Trump and the Republicans are wrongly trying to save their political hides by distorting the word “socialism” to scare self-described moderate voters into rejecting the Democrats. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm
Just as Joseph Stalin famously sneered at the supposed power of the Roman Catholic Church, asking “[h]ow many divisions” the Pope commanded, Trump could ask of Republicans on Capitol Hill (and in the courts), “You might have impeached me, but I’m not leaving. [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]
20 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
There is a damaging narrative emerging in the mainstream media, avidly fueled by conservatives who claim to be opposed both to Donald Trump and the current Republican Party, to the effect that Democrats are in danger of “moving too far left” and need to “rein in the extremists in their party. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
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6 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been the most creative policy thinker in Washington ever since she arrived on the scene little more than a decade ago. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm
With Democrats now in charge of the House of Representatives and early in the process of trying to retake the White House in 2020, all policy ideas are on the table. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
As Professor Neil Buchanan, an economist and law professor at George Washington University, pointed out three years ago, the last major federal budget deal of the Obama years included a ticking time bomb. [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
Public attention has recently been focused on this month’s midterm elections, where Democrats have seen results that were even better than reasonably could have been anticipated (and that could soon be better still). [read post]
4 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
In these final weeks and days before the midterm elections, a sub-genre of interesting commentary has arisen that focuses on how many young people will vote in 2018. [read post]
24 Oct 2018, 4:45 pm
” Neil H. [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]
5 Oct 2018, 8:05 am
(The remarks that follow assume one has read Neil H. [read post]
3 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
“I love two things: Teaching and beer. [read post]
3 Oct 2018, 8:56 am
” Yesterday at that blog, Neil H. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 10:25 am
”—Neil H. [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
I offer here the text of a letter that current Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh could have decided to write in response to the recent allegations that he sexually assaulted and attempted to rape a fifteen-year-old girl when he was a seventeen-year-old high school student.To the President, Members of the Senate, and the People of the United States of America,It has been my great honor to be nominated to join the United States Supreme Court as an Associate Justice. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat to enact their agenda, and Kavanaugh’s tag-teaming with Neil Gorsuch and the other extreme conservatives will guarantee that the small subset of Kennedy’s legacy that non-conservatives admired will be expeditiously erased. [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]
15 Aug 2018, 2:59 pm
Below the fold are the results of the 2018-2019 Law Professor Twitter Census. [read post]