Hunter’s new special counsel also needs investigating
As US attorney, David Weiss slow-walked the Biden case for years
Charles Lipson is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he founded the programme on International Politics, Economics, and Security.
As US attorney, David Weiss slow-walked the Biden case for years
While partisans say their opponents alone are at fault, there’s plenty of blame to go around
That business had only one product: selling political influence
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Deciding whether Ukraine should eventually join Nato is hotly debated. There are good reasons to favour its inclusion, but not now, while the war is ongoing. It would transform the war into a conflict between nuclear-tipped Great Powers and vastly increase the danger. Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, is not happy with the uncertainty over his
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This week Freddy is joined by Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of the National Interest, and Charles Lipson, professor of political science at the University of Chicago. They discuss Charles’s recent piece in The Spectator’s US edition where he argues that the walls are closing in on old Joe, in relation to the Hunter Biden story. Is the President’s involvement
You don’t have to choose between the allegations against Biden and Trump. Both sets could both be true
IRS whistleblowers have come forward to the House Ways and Means Committee with astonishing claims
The Florida governor faces a fiendish challenge: beating Trump without alienating his voters
If Biden’s campaign is built around voters hating Trump, Trump’s is built around seeking revenge
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Donald Trump was in court where he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying records. To discuss, Freddy Gray is joined by Alan Dershowitz, the American lawyer, and Charles Lipson, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Chicago.
Brandon Johnson is soft on crime and in hock to the public-sector unions
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A New York grand jury has indicted former president Donald Trump over alleged ‘hush money’ payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress. The jury was empaneled by Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, a man on a mission. His mission is simple. Get Trump. On anything. He had to do it with the thinnest of evidence, the weakest of
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Donald Trump faces legal jeopardy about payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, but his Republican opponents face political jeopardy about how to handle the issue. Ron DeSantis’s powerful response shows why he’s such a formidable candidate and why Trump fears him. Most Republicans have opted for the easy answer to the hush-money story: criticise Manhattan
Let employers and state licensing boards know what they did
The two candidates who made the Chicago mayoral runoff want to swerve her dismal legacy
Out the window go basic standards of decency, along with coherent arguments
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The war in Ukraine changed fundamentally after Vladimir Putin failed to capture Kyiv and decapitate the regime there a year ago. His army settled into Russia’s traditional way of war: a slow, brutal, relentless slugfest. That strategy necessarily expends countless Russian lives. Human-wave attacks rely on untrained troops, dragooned from prisons or off the streets.
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Freddy Gray speaks to Charles Lipson, a political scientist at the University of Chicago and regular contributor at Spectator World about Biden’s ongoing docudrama. Image designed by Charles Lipson.
First it was a Russian plant, now it is protected personal information
The problem is bipartisan and fortunately there’s a simple solution