Joe Biden knows enough about the US presidency to understand that the first few weeks are the easiest and most pleasant. There inevitably will be setbacks and crises, particularly for a president who took office amidst a raging pandemic, economic collapse, and a climate crisis near to a tipping point. In the early weeks […]
One of the most renowned English poets, P.B. Shelly invoked an injunction from the Bible to explain the effect of capitalism in widening the gap between the haves and have-nots. “The rich get richer and the poor get poorer,” said the poet, borrowing an aphorism from the Gospel of Mathews, which says: To him that hath, more shall […]
Donald Trump is once again a private citizen and Joe Biden is now the 46th President of the United States, but not to an outpouring of national exuberance, only a sense of overwhelming relief that the most anti-American, incompetent and criminal presidency is finally over. “Unity is the path forward,” declared President Biden in his […]
As the world continues to battle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there is increasing concern about the potentially devastating long-run impacts on emerging economies, including in Asia. While China has managed a V-shaped recovery in economic activity, the downturn induced in many other emerging economies is expected to be much more long-lasting. For example, per capita […]
With a new president in office, most Americans no doubt wish the Biden team well and hope that the U.S. will be able to overcome the long list of crises and problems it faces. Containing Covid-19, rejuvenating the economy and closing the huge political, racial, social, gender and income divides are among the most immediate challenges that the […]
For the first time in US history, a president has been impeached twice. Meanwhile, four years of Donald Trump has resulted in the Republicans losing both the House and the Senate, as well as states that are traditionally ruby red like Georgia. So what went wrong? At one point in time, most people expected Trump […]
Loyalty is a noble trait. But when that loyalty to twice-impeached President Donald Trump in the last week of his troubled administration — at a time where there are more troops stationed in the US capital that are on active service in both Iraq and Afghanistan combined — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo remains the […]
One of us is a Republican who proudly served in the Reagan administration and voted for Donald Trump in 2016; the other is a Democrat who worked for President Barack Obama and served as a special counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the first Trump impeachment and trial. We have considerable political differences. But […]
Donald Trump is the first president in U.S. history impeached twice by the House of Representatives. The first time around, it was clear from the start that the Senate would fall far short of the two-thirds supermajority needed to convict him and thus remove him from office. (In the end, only one Republican senator, Mitt […]
A key issue in any Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation of President Trump for inciting violence and insurrection will be whether the evidence satisfies the standard in Brandenburg vs Ohio. There, the Supreme Court held that the First Amendment does not protect speech “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce […]