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7 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm
[Note to readers: In my January 20 Verdict column, I related information from an American émigré in Canada who described the process of becoming a Canadian citizen as “easy. [read post]
17 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm
If Democrats spend the next year saying, “Professor Buchanan is right that it’s almost certainly already too late, but vote for us anyway,” that is hardly a winning strategy. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
World leaders, the media, most of the public, and even a few Republicans are now matter-of-factly saying that the post-election insanity being inflicted upon us by Donald Trump and his enablers is simply the dying gasp of a narcissistic sore loser. [read post]
28 Jan 2025, 9:00 pm
[H]ave mercy … on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
As the political situation in the United States becomes uglier and more threatening, many people are wondering what to do if (or, I have argued, when) things here go from very bad to horrible. [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]
10 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
The political commentariat is now busily pondering the results of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm
As the country and the world await news of whether Republicans’ decision to use the debt ceiling as a political weapon will lead to utter catastrophe, pundits and reporters alike are asking whether there is an out that would allow the Democrats to sidestep the Republicans’ attempted extortion.The question is: “out” from what, exactly? [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm
With the perhaps-temporary death of the Republicans’ efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the question now is where they and the Trump White House will turn their fickle attentions.In the very short term, that question has been pushed aside by Trump’s order last week to fire missiles on Syria. [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]
6 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
It turns out that the attacks on Senator Elizabeth Warren for not yet having explained in detail the financial underpinnings of Medicare-for-All were pretextual and dishonest. [read post]
23 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm
There is no “First Lady of the Treasury Department,” but if there were, Louise Linton would currently occupy that role. [read post]
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]
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]
17 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
There are many, many things to worry about in the world right now. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
The one issue that has motivated voters—including plenty of former non-voters—over the last year is economic inequality. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
Recently, there has been a torrent of revelations regarding the planning that led to the January 6 insurrection, Republican leaders’ reactions to that violent day, and the parallel nonviolent coup attempt that Donald Trump’s supporters in the White House and Congress tried to pull off.One of the issues that has come back into the conversation is the Trumpists’ plan to have former Vice President Mike Pence reject slates of Biden electors from a number of states for being improperly… [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]
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]
4 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
It is increasingly rare that I am able to write about current affairs with any sense of optimism or happiness. [read post]
