The Dying Constitution, Part II By David K. Shipler See Part I Here Like a broken clock that tells the right time twice a day, former President Donald Trump’s recent call for the Constitution to be terminated was a fleeting moment of honesty. He never honored the Constitution in practice…

Trumpism is not Dead By David K. Shipler Despite Donald Trump’s political wounds from the mid-terms, his strategy of hateful polarization and autocratic assaults on democracy have not been defeated. They no longer depend on his personal demagoguery but have been woven into the fabric of the Republican Party. …

Putin’s War Shrinks and Expands Putin’s War Shrinks and Widens By David K. Shipler Russia’s war in Ukraine might be one of the strangest in history. Even while his army is being pummeled into retreat, President Vladimir Putin expands the goals of the conflict into a messianic campaign against the entire West. As his military…

By David K. Shipler A significant struggle, invisible to most Americans, is occurring along the northern New England coast to save both an endangered species of whale and an endangered way of life. It is a clash of priorities, values, and even basic facts, that could leave both North Atlantic…

By David K. Shipler In the last week, both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have treated the world to fantasies and fables so pernicious in their implications for global freedom and security as to defy satire. …

The Promise and Failure of Gorbachev’s Legacy By David K. Shipler On March 15, 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev swore himself in as president of the Soviet Union. The country had no transcendent institution with constitutional authority, so Gorbachev administered his own oath as he touched his right hand to a deep…

The Two Joe Bidens: Performer and Policymaker By David K. Shipler Every modern president needs acting skills alongside constructive policies. It’s not enough to run the government and shape the affairs of state. Franklin Delano Roosevelt mobilized and comforted Americans through his wartime fireside chats on the radio. Harry Truman…

How to Evade the Supreme Court By David K. Shipler With radical regressives on the Supreme Court trying to drag the country back to the 1700s, the case is being made for ignoring, defying, or deftly evading rulings that clash with the values of modern society. …

The Dying Constitution The Founding Document is Being Suffocated by the Radical Right, All the Way Up to the Supreme Court By David K. Shipler Conservatives like to deride liberals who believe in a “living Constitution,” which has stayed alive by applying its core principles to the evolving conditions of…