A common argument for the current mass deportation policy tells us that those immigrants who have come to the United States illegally must be deported because they “jumped ahead of the line” and that it wouldn’t be fair to those would-be immigrants around the world who have waited for years or even decades to get […]
The climate science chapter is gone from the judges’ manual. The scandal behind it is not. Controversy over the Federal Judicial Center’s latest edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence shows no sign of slowing down, even after both the FJC and its co-publisher, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, agreed to […]
Turkey has nominated a serious candidate for the top United Nations post, one which Feridun Sinirlioglu must not be allowed to hold. Selecting a Turkish U.N. secretary-general would transform the U.N. into a puppet show for Turkey’s authoritarian regime led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Given Ankara’s flagrant violations of international law, appointing Sinirlioglu would […]
Medical interventions require precise timing. A treatment administered too early might lack sufficient diagnostic data. A treatment administered too late will fail to alter the outcome. The late-stage foreign policy announcement represented an unprecedented eleventh-hour political intervention. In a hyper-polarized landscape, where the battle for control of Congress rests on razor-thin margins, we must analyze […]
Few, if any, major Democratic elected officials have navigated the politics of the past few years as deftly as Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA). Shapiro easily won three straight statewide elections in a state that voted for Donald Trump two out of three times, and elected a Republican senator, too. Shapiro is obviously smart. He probably […]