This entry is the third and final part of a three part essay outlining the contemporary structural challenges of US governance. For Part I, click here. For Part II, click here. The rudderless state of the US Congress, with no clarifying initiative from an increasingly weakened chief executive is especially disturbing in light of recent...
For Part I, click here Distrust within the body politic toward each other and institutions like the American presidency is not simply the fault of Donald Trump. The meme of Donald Trump being a unique threat to American democracy creates a far too simplistic narrative that media figures have exploited in part due to preconceived...
President Barack Obama’s administration has been one rife with scandals. Some pertain directly to himself and his own actions–like the recent immigration executive order that some say unconstitutionally side-stepped Congress–and some to members of his administration, like the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS and the Secret Service’s series of embarrassments. So in the...
Two days ago, the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, who reported (based on a suggestively-worded Breitbart article) that Obama would be spending July 4th in Paris, recanted his statement via tweet: LOL! ok, ok – I see story says Obama CAMPAIGN not nec Obama will be fundraising in Paris on July 4. I didn’t realize there...
With a vast American flag suspended behind him, Mitt Romney took the stage full of pride last night after a sweep of the evening’s three GOP primaries. Romney scored large wins in Maryland and Washington D.C., and captured the much-contested state of Wisconsin – after a week of campaigning alongside Paul Ryan – by a substantial seven...