“Every impeachment reinvents what impeachment is for, and what it means, a theory of government itself”
Every impeachment reinvents what impeachment is for, and what it means, a theory of...
Category Archives: 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”
The U.S. Senate has held only eighteen impeachment trials in two hundred and thirty...
“To believe that Presidents can do anything they like is to give up on self-government”
In 1787, the delegates in Philadelphia narrowed their list down to “Treason & bribery,...
“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”
The “high” in “high crimes and misdemeanors” has its origins in phrases that include...
“all but one of England’s original thirteen American colonies had been founded before impeachment went out of style”
The Englishman responsible for bringing the ancient practice of impeachment back into use was...
“The fact that Georgia’s Senate races will be decided by runoffs is a quirk of the state’s electoral system…”
The fact that Georgia’s Senate races will be decided by runoffs is a quirk...
“The Trump era has often come wrapped in a cloak of self-protective irony”
The Trump era has often come wrapped in a cloak of self-protective irony. We...
“Had observers better grasped white anxieties unleashed by the growth of America’s nonwhite population and the two-term Presidency of Barack Obama, Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 would have come as no surprise”
Twenty years after Myrdal published his report, and five years after King travelled to...
“The point of a race-riot commission…is for the government that appoints it to appear to be doing something, while actually doing nothing”
White mob violence against black people and their homes and businesses was the far...
“…there are ultimately four characteristics in candidates that I think drive our perceptions and our decisions…”
I think there are ultimately four characteristics in candidates that I think drive our...