The results are in, Donald Trump will return to the White House, and so democracy works, right? You betcha, and the fact that Trump is in and Kampala Harris is out should satisfy even the most skeptical election deniers that the 2020 election was on the up and up, too. After all, if the ...
Editor's note: This column has been updated to reflect the correct spelling of J.N. Kronick's last name. A little of this, a little of that. Negative political campaigning is hardly new. The first contested presidential election, in 1800, bristled with abuse. In 1858, Stephen A. Douglas, the ...
Maybe we always knew it would come down to this question, if, in fact, it does come down to this question: Is Donald Trump a threat to democracy? Nearly ever since he swaggered from the lobby of Trump Tower to the national political spotlight in 2015 鈥� and most especially since the Capitol ...
The great American jurist, Louis Brandeis, once said, "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both." In 2024, it might be just as relevant to say, 鈥淲e may have democracy or we may have Donald Trump, but we cannot have both.鈥� "We ...
Well before he became president, John F. Kennedy jotted down in a notebook he was keeping the words of Liddell Hart, a British scholar, military historian, and strategist. "Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool," Hart wrote in his book, 鈥淒eterrent or Defense,鈥� as noted by ...
A prospective second Trump administration has plans to strip perhaps as many as 50,000 federal civil servants of employment protection, claims an analysis by the nonprofit Protect Democracy. On its website, Protect Democracy quotes the American Enterprise Institute, which says a Trump ...
