News ICYMI: We must stop destroying our institutions 4 Jan 2021 America enters 2021 still in the grip of a pandemic. One of the reasons coronavirus continues to burrow ever deeper into our society is the attack on science has succeeded;…
News ICYMI: We must stop destroying our institutions 4 Jan 2021 America enters 2021 still in the grip of a pandemic. One of the reasons coronavirus continues to burrow ever deeper into our society is the attack on science has succeeded;…
News We must stop destroying our institutions 3 Jan 20214 Jan 2021 America enters 2021 still in the grip of a pandemic. One of the reasons coronavirus continues to burrow ever deeper into our society is the attack on science has succeeded;…
News Britain reminds us just how fragile democracy can be 2 Sep 2019 It's Britain, you say, so who cares? Well, consider what is happening there now and ask if it could be repeated in the U.S? As the New York Times reminds…
PG&E files for bankruptcy and likely to protect itself 29 Jan 2019 Reuters has the details. “The power and gas will stay on ... We are not ‘going out of business,’ and there will be no disruption in the services you expect…
News America’s right played a better (and perhaps sinister) political game than the left; the spoils of victory are now theirs 11 Jul 2018 The New Yorker examines how the imminent shift to the right of the Supreme Court affirms that conservatives and their backers played a better political game than their opponents on…
“No Tom, Dick and Harry can criticize the decisions of the courts.” 30 Mar 201829 Mar 2018 Here's a question for you: Are the news media in a country free if they are not allowed to question the decisions handed down by judges? The answer depends upon…
News A few takeaways from a two-week academic seminar 17 Jan 201516 Jan 2015 Now it's time to assess and process. Two weeks of guest speakers, site visits, readings, and conversations came to a close yesterday as The Washington Center's academic seminar ended. Washington…
News Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor hands victory to Catholic groups 1 Jan 20141 Jan 2014 The Associated Press reports that Justice Sotomayor issued a stay to the health care law that would have required religious groups to provide coverage for birth control. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s…
News NSA reveals more secrets after… 22 Aug 2013 ...a court orders it to do so. The Associated Press explains why. The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, released the information Wednesday "in the interest of increased transparency," and…
