Author: danps

The government has an increasingly free hand in deciding what information it releases to the public, and its response has unsurprisingly been towards less disclosure. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning...

With the renomination of the current Federal Reserve chairman meeting some opposition, now is the time to start thinking about who might be a good replacement. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears.No...

The president has been getting some resistance from within his party for several new proposals, but an extremely consequential area of conflict is being largely overlooked. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning...

Recent actions by the Department of Justice in the case of a Guatánamo detainee are more suited for the Queen of Hearts than a court of law, and the most plausible explanations are corruption or incompetence. For more on...

The damage done by the Bush administration to the rule of law occurred over a few years – relatively quickly in legal terms.  Repairing it will be a much longer task, as repairing always is. For more on pruning back...