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War and the Imperial Presidency
Congress Offers a Bipartisan Blank Check to Donald Trump
• May 3, 2018
• 2,700 Words • 1 Comment • Reply
It may be too late. The president of the United States is now a veritable autocrat in the realm of foreign policy. He has been since at least 1945, when the last congressionally declared war finally ended. Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen (among other places) were all... Read More
Congress’s Romance with Cowardice
War Without War Powers (the Not-So-New American Way)
• November 5, 2017
• 3,000 Words • 3 Comments • Reply
On September 1, 1970, soon after President Nixon expanded the Vietnam War by invading neighboring Cambodia, Democratic Senator George McGovern, a decorated World War II veteran and future presidential candidate, took to the floor of the Senate and said, “Every Senator [here] is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave... This... Read More
Publish, Punish, and Pardon
Nine Things Obama Could Do Before Leaving Office to Reveal the Nature of the National Security State
• December 4, 2016
• 3,400 Words • Leave a Comment
In less than seven weeks, President Barack Obama will hand over the government to Donald Trump, including access to the White House, Air Force One, and Camp David. Trump will also, of course, inherit the infamous nuclear codes, as well as the latest in warfare technology, including the Central Intelligence Agency’s fleet of killer drones,... Read More
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Writing a Blank Check on War for the President
How the United States Became a Prisoner of War and Congress Went MIA
• April 5, 2016
• 2,000 Words • 25 Comments • Reply
Let’s face it: in times of war, the Constitution tends to take a beating. With the safety or survival of the nation said to be at risk, the basic law of the land -- otherwise considered sacrosanct -- becomes nonbinding, subject to being waived at the whim of government authorities who are impatient, scared, panicky,... Read More
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Bragging Rights
Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the Twenty-First Century
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Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower
How the Security State’s Mania for Secrecy Will Create You
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And Then There Was One
Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower
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