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July 4 special: 'The Framers would not recognize the modern presidency.’
Over the past few years making the“Can He Do That?” podcast, a few episodes have stuck with us. In particular, the episodes that keenly capture the role of the U.S. president that ...
Virus cases are surging in the U.S. Is our government better prepared now?
In the United States, novel coronavirus infections set a single-day national record Wednesday. For now it seems like deaths are not growing at the same pace as cases, but it’s clea...
An ‘erratic’ and ‘stunningly uninformed’ commander in chief: Inside Bolton’s book
John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Trump, wrote a book,“The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” The book offers a portrait of President Trump as ...
Public sentiment on police reform has shifted dramatically. Will it matter?
Public outcry and calls for police reform have erupted across the country, with movements taking aim at not just policing tactics, but also broader racial inequities embedded in Am...
Trump’s response to unrest raises concerns among those trained to detect democratic regression
Earlier this week, the country watched as the U.S. president walked across Lafayette Square outside the White House to stand in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, hold a Bible a...
Trump threatened military action to quell protests. Can he do that?
Protests across the United States have intensified since last week over the death of George Floyd, a black man whose final gasps of“I can’t breathe” while in police custody, were c...
Public health partisanship confronts a new reality: The virus is surging in rural America
This week, the United States reached a grim milestone: Covid-19 deaths surpassed 100,000 in this country. In recent weeks, the geographic areas and the communities this deadly viru...
How Trump is leveraging the presidency to campaign against Biden
This presidential campaign season is unlike any other in history. I know, that sounds like something people in world of politics say a lot. But this time, in 2020, during a global ...
Politics, pressure and pleas: The twisting case of Michael Flynn and the Justice Department
Last week, the Justice Department, led by Attorney General William P. Barr, moved to drop charges against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn ha...
The president’s desperate push to reopen America
After weeks of stay-at-home orders and business closures, some parts of the United States are beginning to reopen. Since late March, President Trump has grappled with the White Hou...
The Postal Service is in dire need. Trump wants to block the loan that could save them.
The coronavirus pandemic has left a tremendous number of businesses across the country without the revenue they’re used to. For the U.S. Postal Service, its losses in revenue — bot...
The U.S. is spending trillions to save the economy. Where does all that money come from?
Trillions of dollars have been injected into the U.S. economy since March. Late last month, Congress passed a $2 trillion relief bill, the Cares Act, designed to help the country c...
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