In this essay, Bill Moyers calls the current shutdown/debt default ploy what it is. Secession by another means.
My only quibble is that it might be more accurately termed nullification, with real roots back almost two centuries back to John C. Calhoun. The refusal of a minority to abide by the democratic process and instead threaten to destroy the state if they don’t hold a permanent veto on anything the majority wants to do.
For years I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Tom Edsall, the one-time Washington Post reporter and author who now writes…
I want to add a quick addendum to today’s Backchannel about Democrats saying “no” to interest groups. This comes out…
Let me return to something I wrote about yesterday and said I’d return to: Adam Jentleson’s piece in the Times…
Here’s a morsel of news that shows you how far we’ve come over the last eight years. Donald Trump made…
