Author: danps

A recent column by a prominent advocate of the U.S. torture program is the latest example of how its proponents refuse to address even the most basic facts concerning it. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning...

Proponents of the Bush administration’s antiterror policies argued for vast and unchecked new powers for the president.  Recent events may give them reason to question the wisdom of such absolute grants of authority....

The president has gotten considerably closer to some on the right who until recently may have been supposed to be among his strongest critics.  There are some possible explanations for this, but from a progressive...

This week a rumor circulated that the president was looking to beef up the Federal Reserve at the expense of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  If true it will not be a reform so much as another pull in the tug of war...

There has been a great deal of commentary lately about how the internet is threatening newspapers’ business model, but its most acute problems are within the organizations themselves. For more on pruning back executive...