On Thursday night in Greenville, South Carolina, a handful of gentleman seeking to replace Barack Obama will grapple with this political brain-baffler: if a top-tier candidate doesn’t show up for a presidential debate, is it really a debate...?
Far from being an essential “prerogative” of the President, “czars” are an anomalous departure from the constitutional scheme. Congress had every right to defund them...
...[W]hile the effects of democracy on economic performance are controversial, democracies can have some economic advantages for poor as well as rich countries...
On May 2, 2011, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s party won an absolute majority, 164 out of 308 seats, in Canada’s House of Commons after governing as a minority during the past five years...
I think thanks are also due to the people who served in the financial front of the war on terror during these ten years—many in the United States Treasury...
...[W]hat we have learned raises the possibility–once again–that [the CIA program or the coercive tactics used within it] may have made, and long after its closure may still be making, a significant contribution to American security...
