Month: April 2017

I’m a little bit swamped with work at the moment, so this is just going to be a brief post. I noticed that the Democrats had a very good result in downstate Illinois municipal elections earlier this month, and I was very...

I’ve written extensively in recent weeks (for example, here) about a structural political problem that Donald Trump has that is going to prevent him from successfully getting legislation passed through this Congress. A...

President Trump’s budget director Mick Mulvaney is displaying a pre-Katrina level of complacency about the prospects that his boss’s hundredth day in office will coincide with a shutdown of the government due to lack...

I am getting a little frustrated with how elements of the #TrumpRussia story are continually confirmed and expanded upon without giving us much more clarity. For example, today’s Guardian story provides more insight into...

Russia failed to prevent Beslan massacre: European Court | Politico EU | The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Russian authorities failed to implement measures that could have prevented the 2004 attack in Beslan,...