The stature that comes with occupying (and even having occupied) public office, whether elected or appointed and especially if high office, ...

Both in the E.U. and U.S., the member-states are semi-sovereign, and are even guaranteed all residual sovereignty that is not in any of the ...

In the United States, Christmas is the last official holiday of the calendar-year, and Thanksgiving is the penultimate holiday. New Year’s D...

With enough Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives staying in Illinois and New York as of August 3, 2025 that the legislat...

On the first full day of U.S. President Trump’s second term, the president and vice president attended a multi-faith prayer service at the N...

As in the case of the Roman Empire, which internal corruption likely weakened and even destroyed centuries after that empire had been a rep...

Entertainment celebrities and businesses alike risk losing customers and thus revenue by taking positions publicly on political issues. Fear...

At the beginning of a U.S. Senate trial on whether to remove an impeached U.S. president from office, the senators take an oath to be imp...

On September 16, 2012, “Arctic ice covered just 1.32 million square miles—the lowest extent ever recorded. ‘The loss of summer sea ice has ...

In a stunning upset in the 2012 Republican U.S. Senate primary in Indiana, Indiana's Treasurer, Richard Mourdock, beat incumbant veter...

Observing a pattern of sustained ideological proclivities in the decisions of justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, The New York Times edito...

In his confidential memorandum, “Attack on American Free Enterprise System,” Lewis Powell, later to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court,...

On December 31, 2010, a Russian judge sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian tycoon who had been imprisoned in 2003 after defying Vla...

In April of 2011, S & P lowered expectations on U.S. Government debt from “stable” to “negative.”  Astonishing, t he $14.2 trillion U....

Words  matter in politics. The side that can frame a question by definitively naming it in the public mind enjoys a subtle though often dec...

In 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Madison v. Marbury, which established the authority of the court to declare a law to be unconstitut...

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams concurred on the following preference—namely, a natural aristocracy of virtue and talent over the artificia...

Is ending the filibuster on appointments to executive-branch offices as well as judicial appointments below the U.S. Supreme Court really...

It is likely a drawback of democracy that hard decisions—that is, those in which fixing the problem goes against instant gratification...

How a democratic system is designed can be as important as whether the government officials have been elected or appointed. In constructing...