Showing posts with label the US Senate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the US Senate. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

On the Role of Socialism in American Political Polarization

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In a stunning upset in the 2012 Republican U.S. Senate primary in Indiana, Indiana's Treasurer, Richard Mourdock, beat incumbant veter...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

A U.S. Senator Aiding a Contributor While Averting a "Fiscal Cliff": Turning a Crisis into an Opportunity

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The law passed by Congress on January 3, 2013 to avert the across-the-board tax increases and “sequester” (i.e., across-the-board budget ...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Protecting Minority Stockholder Rights: On a Conflict of Interest at Revlon

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The principle of majority rule is a staple of democratic theory. Typically the victor of a close election is quick to proclaim that “the pe...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Consolidation From 1913: The Federal Reserve, Megabanks, and the U.S. Government

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In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal anti-trust law required the break-up of Rockefeller’s mammoth Standard Oil Company, wh...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

States Move Beyond Congress on Gun Control

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On April 4, 2013, the government of Connecticut passed “a sweeping new set of gun control reforms.” Colorado and New York had already pas...
Monday, November 26, 2012

The Filibuster: States' Rights or a Partisan Ploy?

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Before 1917, senators could filibuster only by talking continuously on the U.S. Senate floor. There was no mechanism to stop them. Such f...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

On the Belgium Stalemate: The E.U. to the Rescue?

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On June 22, 2011, Philip Claeys, a representative in the E.U. Parliament, once again repeated his demand for Flemish independence, calling...