epub |eng | 2017-12-28 | Author:Forrest Nabors

Because a man is weak, because he is ignorant, because he is imbecile, does not confer the right upon the first man who is wiser or stronger than he to ...

epub |eng | 1974-01-15 | Author:Charles L., Jr. Black [Black, Jr., Charles L. Black,]

CHAPTER 7 Seven Fallacies Though much has changed in the practices of the US government and in the expectations of the public since 1974, much abides. From the very beginning ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Josh Chafetz [Chafetz, Josh]

For Congress to compete effectively with the other branches in the public sphere, it must be able to communicate with the public. This means that its members must be able ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Luke Rosiak [Rosiak, Luke]

FIFTEEN MEDIA MALPRACTICE: SEE SOMETHING, SAY NOTHING The Democrats’ brazen public denial of the existence of any cyber breach was made possible by one thing: Republican leadership’s bizarre silence. They ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-13 | Author:Alan Dershowitz

Trump Will Not Pardon Himself or Testify in Sex Cases33 From an interview by Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, June 5, 2018. CHUCK TODD: Welcome back. On this question ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Jeff Sharlet [Sharlet, Jeff]

Prophecy isn’t kind, but Bahati was brave. He knew his bill, if passed—and in Uganda, voters wanted it passed—would lead to a great forsaking, indeed: of foreign aid, the lifeblood ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Ruth Marcus

* * * Late that afternoon, the phone rang at the home of Beth Wilkinson, a leading Washington trial lawyer. A former army lawyer and federal prosecutor, Wilkinson had sought—and ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Jeff Sharlet [Sharlet, Jeff]

Prophecy isn’t kind, but Bahati was brave. He knew his bill, if passed—and in Uganda, voters wanted it passed—would lead to a great forsaking, indeed: of foreign aid, the lifeblood ...

epub |eng | 2017-11-30 | Author:Ira Shapiro [Shapiro, Ira]

• 10 • Investigating the Russian Connection As Election Day 2016 approached, Richard Burr, the two-term Republican senator from North Carolina, expected to coast to an easy reelection, suddenly faced ...

epub |eng | | Author:Eric Foner

THE RATIFICATION OF the Fifteenth Amendment marked the completion of the second founding. But constitutional provisions are not self-enforcing, nor do they automatically command universal acquiescence. It quickly became clear ...

epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2019-09-03 | Author:Jason Chaffetz

Chapter 7 Oversight Without Government Reform The transformation of congressional oversight from its function as a government watchdog to an anti-Trump opposition research function happened fast. Suddenly the imperative to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alec MacGillis

* * * In Inez, the traces of the Martin County Coal slurry spill are still everywhere. The embankment along meandering Coldwater Creek, once lined with cherry and walnut trees, ...

azw3 |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Hemingway, Mollie & Severino, Carrie [Hemingway, Mollie]

By the time the committee took its first break at 11:30 a.m., Kavanaugh’s situation was considered dire. Republican senators were described as “stone-faced” as they filed out of the hearing ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

* * * THE TAVENNER NAME was well known in Woodstock and its environs for influence and apples, which makes sense since the two were synonymous in the Shenandoah Valley. ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Michael Bennet [Bennet, Michael]

VI. Shark Jaws Sometimes, late at night, looking out the window at the well-tended and deceptively placid grounds of Lower Senate Park, I do some math. The exercise goes like ...