Jason Willick

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Americans have grown used to congressional gridlock, followed by presidential power-grabs. Democracy’s foremost institution, Congress, is becoming marginalized.

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Foisting a compliance bureaucracy on the justices has a sheen of ethical idealism, but this is ruthless politics, targeting a conservative court.

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A grim constant in Republican presidential politics is the persistence of the death penalty as an issue, even as its use has dramatically faded.

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The DOJ's use of the "obstruction of an official proceeding" statute invites the exercise of raw power. With luck, the Supreme Court will intervene.

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If state institutions start to appear ineffectual, the balance of power will tend to shift toward Washington.

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The phrase, now echoing in progressive circles, could be used to justify any prosecution, no matter how poorly predicated, selective or malicious.

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The Republican supported arming Ukraine after Russia's seizure of Crimea in 2014. But his current stance is not so contradictory as critics claim.

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Study finds that people who see the greatest social threat from misinformation tend to be those who have gravest doubts about ordinary people's common sense.

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If some Christians fear becoming a minority in the United States, it’s secular Israelis who worry about the country’s increasingly religious trajectory.