Month: October 2016

Local context is critical of course but, as a rule, I’d think that any down-ballot Republican candidate would lose more than gain by renouncing Trump. Karma sucks, huh?

If you care about certain things deeply and they are things that will be decided by the Supreme Court rather than by the U.S. Congress, then I can see how it’s possible to look at the presidential contest less as a choice...

U.S. support for the Saudi campaign of air strikes in Yemen could make the it a “co-belligerent” in the war under international law. See the jurisprudentie in the trial of Charles Taylor of Liberia at the...

During the October 9 debate, Donald Trump threatened to jail his political opponent should he be elected president. This is of course ordinary, unremarkable rhetoric coming from a Republican presidential candidate. You, dear...

I don’t think the point of Moby Dick was that the whale brought it all on himself, and that should never be how we look back on l’affaire Lewinsky or any of the other events and fabrications that were used in the...