Listen To This: Protest Politics

Just before the onset of the pandemic I’d started researching a longer project about the personalization of global politics which was accelerated by but not started by Trump. In a way personalization is the inevitable companion of authoritarianism and autocracy. If there’s one guy who runs the show in each…

As judges begin to rule on the merits of President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to give him wide latitude to expel alleged Venezuelan gang members, the administration is starting to rack up losses.

The Supreme Court majority all but declared Thursday that it is ready to overturn a nearly century-old precedent meant to protect independent agencies from at-will firing by the President.