Anne Appelbaum posits, rightly, that Trump, his like-minded cohort around the world, and his millions of adherents reject the Enlightenment and all that it represents

The academy has again blamed me for choices made by others. I’m an easy target; I’m an urban liberal. (Detractors throw in “elitist” but, as

The reasonable conclusion from the recent oral argument in Colorado v. Anderson is that nine people — in the name of 330 million fellow citizens

The November 2024 election looms over the three criminal cases in which Trump is the defendant. He has made it clear, by public statements and

At “Courting Ridicule” (snyder.substack.com), Timothy Snyder warns that the issue of Trump’s eligibility for office risks the Supreme Court’s “mak[ing] itself ridiculous.” “We stand on

Yesterday a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals entertained oral arguments from Trump’s attorney, D. John Sauer, as to a president’s “absolute

Two legal scholars have made a robust case (http://deliverypdf.ssrn.com) for using Section 3 of the 14TH Amendment to disqualify Trump from the 2024 election: No

I recently struggled to understand this Jack Goldsmith piece about prosecuting Trump for January 6. The piece is exasperating in its fatuous logic and weak-kneed

Two Republican stalwarts have introduced House resolutions to expunge the Trump impeachments. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s version deals with December 2019 (Impeachment 1), Elise Stefanik’s with

Hyperventilation over Trump’s indictment gives us the latest example of how media pervert language. Almost universally, headlines refer to his being charged with “mishandling classified

Hard to imagine that someone who contributes less than zero to humanity has done something useful. But Marjorie Taylor Greene — enamored of the public