America, Work “Burnout may be our contemporary condition, but it has very particular historical origins” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 May 2021 Burnout may be our contemporary condition, but it has very particular historical origins. In...
America, Politics in America “Every impeachment reinvents what impeachment is for, and what it means, a theory of government itself” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2021 Every impeachment reinvents what impeachment is for, and what it means, a theory of...
America, Politics in America “Because impeachment happens so infrequently, it’s hard to draw conclusions about what it does, or even how it works, and, on each occasion, people spend a lot of time fighting over the meaning of the words and the nature of the crimes” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2021 The U.S. Senate has held only eighteen impeachment trials in two hundred and thirty...
America, Politics in America “To believe that Presidents can do anything they like is to give up on self-government” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2021 In 1787, the delegates in Philadelphia narrowed their list down to “Treason & bribery,...
America, England, Politics in America “The ‘high’ in ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ has its origins in phrases that include the ‘certain high treasons and offenses and misprisons’ invoked in the impeachment of the Duke of Suffolk” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2021 The “high” in “high crimes and misdemeanors” has its origins in phrases that include...
England, Politics in America “all but one of England’s original thirteen American colonies had been founded before impeachment went out of style” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2021 The Englishman responsible for bringing the ancient practice of impeachment back into use was...
America “The Jewish-Italian connection is so central to the Mafia legend that one senses it must be operating on a kind of meta-level…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 January 2021 In talking about the Mob, we airily use words like “mythological,” but there’s a...
America “the Mob was really defeated not by charges but by changes” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 January 2021 The former Mafia prosecutor John Kroger, in his 2008 book, “Convictions,” details his team’s...
Politics in America “The fact that Georgia’s Senate races will be decided by runoffs is a quirk of the state’s electoral system…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 January 2021 The fact that Georgia’s Senate races will be decided by runoffs is a quirk...
Politics in America “The Trump era has often come wrapped in a cloak of self-protective irony” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 January 2021 The Trump era has often come wrapped in a cloak of self-protective irony. We...