…understand in my bones. This year I was told by my more liberal brother that I was becoming a “populist demagogue” and by my conservative brother that I was a…

…But when Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggests, as she did recently, that the right-wing of the high court seems to be privileging the Trump administration’s emergency petitions, she is labeled—by the…

…recently. How do you rein in some of the tyrannical enforcement? (Andy Biggs, R-AZ) In order to sell these lies, Republicans rejected facts, science, and math . . . labeling…

…of the Glorious Revolution, is the founding philosophical document of modern liberal representative democracies. In it he anticipates John Rawls’s “original position.” Locke argues that in order to protect their…

The libertarian vs. populist trade-off in the 2020 election and beyond A few weekends ago I wrote that  “the Democratic ‘brand’ is ‘socially liberal, economically moderate,’ while the US electorate as a…

…pivot on Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Not only does this take much of the liberal wish list off the table, it also makes deep structural reform of federal institutions…

…limits on Congress’s ability to delegate regulatory authority to agencies (not sure if he is more liberal with a Republican administration). Key to permitting agencies to regulate (Gundy v United…

…as entertainment. News as propaganda was always there. Patriot or Tory, Liberal or conservative, there has always been a Fox. — Cable News (news as entertainment) epitomized the commodification of…

…federal student loans that people really need to know to understand the problem. It is a common misconception, for example, that student loan borrowers are generally younger, liberal, successful, and that…

…and consumers. Only once in American history, during the Warren Court, from 1954-1969, and especially from 1962-1969, was there a liberal majority on the high court and its decisions were…