American Democracy

A different approach to executive power, looking at the US Constitution vs. the Italian Dpcm. The current value of the Lincoln Project.

With his attempted re-appropriation of American values and American history, Trump’s Fourth of July speech can be seen as a dangerous embrace of fascist rhetoric. By identifying Trump’s supporters as “American” and his critics as “liars,” “violent mobs,” “totalitarians” the...

Shattered windows and stores looted even in New York? These acts of violence of a small group of people certainly don’t represent the entire protest movement, but we prefer to reserve most of our anger and outrage for George Floyd’s...

In the coming weeks and months, political scenarios abound that may hurt the Democrats and favor Trump and the Republicans. Trump may also profit from a Democratic Death Wish. Above all, the wish is manifest in too many Democratic potential...

Our political philosophies, regardless of party, have become untethered from ethics and morality and supplanted by political expediency and rage. It is truly ironic that a man widely considered to be inarticulate, uninformed and perhaps downright unintelligent has coined the...

This article focuses on one of the major deficits of American power: the lack of historical depth, that is, the idea that a solution that worked within a specific historical context can be reapplied in any other circumstance and produce...

Fifty years ago, on an important night for the Democratic primaries, candidate Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the former President, JFK, died in Los Angeles. RFK understood right away that, more than Communism, it was the Mafia and its relationship...

Why might Donald Trump be around longer than anyone prefers? Because of democrats wishful thinking - like "Oprah for President 2020" - favors the built-in advantages Trump is so clever to exploit. The powerful and disquieting reasons why Trump is...