I T MAY BE hard to imagine today, but in the 1960s and 1970s Venezuela was hailed as a model democracy. Then the oil price ...
Whether a glass is half full or half empty is a matter of perspective. The same can be said about the half of Americans who oppose the idea of allowing presidents to rule unilaterally—an exercise of ...
It was 1776. The US was a baby nation-state. It was very proud of itself for its radical new democracy, the first, it was claimed, since the ancient Greeks. Great decision-making power was conferred ...
The Supreme Court's much-anticipated presidential immunity ruling didn't just chop out sections of the federal election interference indictment against former President Donald Trump. Legal experts say ...
Stearns is the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. He is the author of PARLIAMENTARY AMERICA: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing ...
In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule. Surveying over a ...
Trump wants FBI agents who investigated his coup attempt, his facilitating espionage, or his other financial and criminal activities fired. Let’s be very clear: this is how dictatorships start. A guy ...
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom, but concentrated power across all three branches is the very definition of ...
Legal experts, political advisors and scholars from across the political spectrum are warning that a second term for Donald Trump could mean effectively ending democracy in America, a threat they say ...
I do not imagine that there are more than a handful of Salon readers who are not familiar with the danger of electing Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States for a second time. It is not ...
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‘Move to an Actual Dictatorship!’: Elon Musk Throws Tantrum Over Judicial Oversight As Critics Demand He Relocate to a Country Where Presidents Have Unlimited Power
Elon Musk is blasting the judiciary, claiming if judges can stop executive actions, “we do not live in a democracy.” “If ANY ...
As a “Fight Club” of eight senators led by Bernie Sanders challenges Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s handling of President Trump, we speak with Ralph Nader, who has been taking on the ...
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