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...
America is currently suffering a crisis of governance which prevents adequate action from the executive branch in response to Russian government-sponsored social media activity in the 2016 election. This context is necessary to see past the day-to-day noise of the American media’s attempts to label Russian election interference––and the political fallout––as a crisis uniquely rooted...