the weaker party

For out look at the media's relationship with government officials. The State Department has a process in place to allow administrative ...

According to the New York Times , it came from an economist - Jared Bernstein - who had worked in the White House as the Chief Economist a...

An ongoing question since 9/11 has been why wasn't information about the attacks available? A commentator in the NYT argues that the C...

This is a point made repeatedly when we discuss presidential advising - they are far more likely to look to members of the White House staff...

From the Washington Post : President Obama’s decision to issue recent recess appointments is constitutional, because rece...

Here's something for both 2301 and 2302 to chew on as we review basic terms and observe the pros and cons of different governing systems...

The NYT reports on the conflict between various executive agencies regarding the scope of the War Powers Resolution and whether it applies ...

From the story below, a copy of the text Nixon would have read had the crew of Apollo 11 not returned safely from the moon. H.R. Halderman ...

This is a truly tragic story that illustrates a key problem of presidential advising (though it involves decision making in the Soviet Unio...

Richard Wirthlin , a pollster who worked with Ronald Reagan  died recently . Both 2301s and 2302s ought to read up on him as he is credited ...

Ezra Klein highlights actions by three separate executive officials involved in implementing economic policy. or providing advise about it: ...

- Maryland is one of several states that must periodically decide whether to rewrite it's constitution . - Debate continues over unemp...

From the Washington Post .

General McChrystal had tart words about members of the Obama Administration in a recent interview. He's since backed down, but his com...

The post below makes me wonder if anyone has ever written a history of fall guys in American history. It would make a good read.