| Apr 20, 2022 | Rights / DemocracyMuch ink has been spilled over Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s failure to recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 election, despite his wife’s participation in efforts to overthrow it. Those are sensible calls. But meanwhile, too little attention has been...
| Oct 2, 2019 | Rights / DemocracyDoes Trump understand democracy? I’m really asking. His approach to politics is combative — kill-or-be-killed. If you hit him, he will hit you back harder, no matter what the rules of the game are. That might be a great strategy in a WWE ring. It’s less...
| Oct 18, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyThis summer, on the very day that white supremacists rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia, I was down the road visiting Montpelier — the home of James Madison, our fourth president. On the house tour, we stopped in Madison’s upstairs library, where he spent...