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...
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...
America, Politics in America, Races in America “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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2020 Twenty years after Myrdal published his report, and five years after King travelled to...
America, Politics in America, Races in America “The point of a race-riot commission…is for the government that appoints it to appear to be doing something, while actually doing nothing” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 July 2020 White mob violence against black people and their homes and businesses was the far...
Politics in America “…there are ultimately four characteristics in candidates that I think drive our perceptions and our decisions…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 March 2020 I think there are ultimately four characteristics in candidates that I think drive our...