Biden’s press conference was a feast of disinformation
Americans are forming the indelible impression that this president is incompetent
Charles Lipson
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.
Friday
Tuesday
Why Andrew Cuomo had to go
The New York governor was finished as soon as other Democrats no longer feared him
Friday
Getting UN help on American civil rights is a great idea
I for one would love a lecture on police brutality from Cuba or Venezuela
Friday
How cable news will inevitably politicize the Surfside building tragedy
Brace yourself for several days of vapid non-news
Thursday
Incentives matter
Right now we have the wrong ones — for schools, crime and employment
Saturday
Let the president play on the beach or the golf course
What matters are the decisions he makes
Monday
Who wants Biden’s massive budget?
The President wasn’t elected to carry out such a vast expansion of centralized government
Tuesday
Elite anti-Semitism at the Boston Globe
Their cartoon is both vile and factually incorrect
Tuesday
The decline and fall of the Associated Press
The AP’s building in Gaza collapses after an Israeli air strike. Is the organization’s credibility crumbling too?
Tuesday
Who killed bipartisanship?
Joe Biden promised moderation. He hasn’t delivered it
Thursday
Does ‘anti-racism’ also mean slurring black conservatives?
It sure seems that way on Twitter
Friday
Distorting the news to inflame the mob
Facts don’t matter when you can cry ‘systemic racism’
Thursday
Biden’s bait-and-switch presidency
Will the ‘ram-it-through’ mentality characterize the remainder of Biden’s first two years?
Tuesday
School parents are mad as hell and they’re not going to take this anymore
Political pressure to reopen schools is growing more intense
Thursday
Why are people gloating over Rush Limbaugh’s death?
Political divisions have crushed our sense of decency
Wednesday
Earmarks rise from the dead in the Democratic Congress
Why did they go away? Why does Nancy Pelosi want them back?
Friday
Chasing Chaucer and Beowulf out of the curriculum
A secular pilgrimage to the wrong destination
Friday
The end game
How can America get through the final, flailing days of Trump’s presidency?
Wednesday
This is not what a constitutional republic looks like
We rightly see this effort to seize control of the Capitol as anti-democratic, as an embryonic and inchoate coup attempt
Monday
Why Trump must attend Biden’s inauguration
This ‘eye for an eye’ is blinding our democracy
