Author: danps

The Senate released an extraordinary document last week, containing the kind of accusations that once would have brought Washington – and the nation – to a standstill.  Instead it received a muted response, and...

The Attorney General recently asserted that no pardons are necessary for any of the actors in the administration’s torture regime.  Whether or not that is true as a political strategy his reasoning for it hints at a...

The latest encroachment on basic freedoms arrived this week with the usual packaging:  The need to keep us all safe.  But domestic deployment of tens of thousands of soldiers would do no such thing, and in fact would...

The collection of furtive shenanigans we’ve come to call The Bailout took an extraordinary turn at the start of the week when we guaranteed hundreds of billions of dollars for yet another diminished ex-titan of Wall...

The Electoral College, when it is noticed at all, is usually dismissed as an anachronism at best and a foe of democracy at worst.  But some of our current problems might be more manageable if we made more use of it, not...