Author: danps

An elaboration on one of Steven’s posts from yesterday.Steven wrote: If the Obama candidacy has done nothing else, it has exposed the raw bigotry towards non-white Americans that lies just under a thin layer of civility to...

The Republican party is facing another bad election cycle.  Some of the reason is simply the stars aligning against it, but the larger reason is the miserable results of its policies. For more on pruning back executive...

A recently filed lawsuit could initiate a dramatic assertion of Congressional authority.  It could also be just more hot air, and the inscrutable nature of Congress doesn’t help figuring out which. For more on pruning...

Last Sunday the New York Times detailed how the administration has used retired military offices as a “Trojan horse” to sell the Iraq war.  We owe it to the soldiers serving there to ask some hard questions in...

Last week’s torture news received little attention because of the combined effects of decorous politicians, indifferent media and the administration’s reflexive defenders.  To change these dynamics we may need...