Donald Trump Impeached a Second Time in Historic House Vote


The House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump on January 13 for a second time, marking the first time in U.S. history that a President has been impeached more than once. Ten Republicans voted to impeach Trump for incitement of insurrection, granting the Democrats’ latest effort to remove him from office new bipartisan backing. In 2019,…

Donald Trump Impeached a Second Time in Historic House Vote
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This is truly a great day…

American Exceptionalism Makes Us Think We’d Never Face the Violent Unrest of Other Countries. We Shouldn’t Feel So Confident.


Lieutenant Colonel Jabbar of the Afghan Commandos was good at chess. Like his namesake Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who played for the L.A. Lakers, he was also exceedingly tall and stood out in a crowd. In 2008, I served as his combat advisor and on several occasions the two of us had to travel across Afghanistan together […]

American Exceptionalism Makes Us Think We’d Never Face the Violent Unrest of Other Countries. We Shouldn’t Feel So Confident.

American Exceptionalism is an oxymoron.

Local Officials Haven’t Heard from the White House on COVID-19 Contact Tracing


In the days immediately preceding President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis, he and his aides travelled to five states, holding several rallies and crowded indoor events with large groups of people. But there’s no clear indication that the White House is playing its stated role as the coordinator of a critical contact tracing effort that could […]

Local Officials Haven’t Heard from the White House on COVID-19 Contact Tracing

No alarms and no surprises.

Hitler’s Quest for Power Was Nearly Derailed Multiple Times. But the System Enabled His Rise


Adolf Hitler did not have to come to power. Indeed, during his 13-year quest for leadership of Germany, he almost failed many times. In the end, however, his astonishing success showed how demagoguery could overcome potentially career-ending challenges—and profoundly change history. A determined strongman, not taken seriously by the elites but enabled by a core…

Hitler’s Quest for Power Was Nearly Derailed Multiple Times. But the System Enabled His Rise

Enabling is dangerous.

Back Into Quarantine


Covid infection numbers are up in Ohio, as they are in a whole lot of places, and in the US in general; I’m particularly looking at the infection numbers for Georgia, where I am meant to be at the beginning of September, and they are higher there now than they have ever been before, and […]

Back Into Quarantine

A spot on post… the crisis should’ve been managed.