Charles Lipson

founding fathers

The Founding Fathers’ focus group on impeachment, 1787

21 November 2019 4:46 am

We recently learned that House Democrats are concentrating their impeachment drive on ‘bribery’ because focus groups liked it better than…

impeachment hearings

The Democrats’ bad start to the impeachment hearings

14 November 2019 7:24 pm

The first day of public impeachment hearings was good for Republicans and mediocre, at best, for Democrats. That’s far short…

invective

The age of invective

21 October 2019 6:50 pm

A healthy democracy requires free speech and free assembly, tolerance for different views, and peaceful transfers of power among contending parties. It requires…

pelosi

What Pelosi really wants from impeachment

16 October 2019 2:48 am

The most important thing to know about Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is this: it is not about removing President Trump now; it…

joe biden

The question isn’t if Joe Biden will screw up: it’s when

15 March 2019 2:46 am

Joe Biden seems on the verge of announcing he will run for president. He begins in a strong position, leading…