The Constitution of Talk
8/25/17 //
In-Depth Analysis
There needs to be a separation of microphones just as much as a separation of powers, and Congress does not understand the microphone that 2017 requires.
Chafetz and the Separation of Powers
8/23/17 //
In-Depth Analysis
By Victoria Nourse: It is one of the great paradoxes of American life that Americans love democracy but hate their most democratic institution, the Congress—that is, until they need Congress to fight a rogue President
Congress’s Rhetoric
8/23/17 //
In-Depth Analysis
By Kate Shaw: Congress must find new opportunities for successful engagement with the public, by both individual members and the body as a whole
Congress’s Personnel Power
8/22/17 //
In-Depth Analysis
Congress should engender a robust administrative separation of powers, ensuring that a forceful bureaucracy (and an engaged public) can advance congressional priorities and check those of the President
Congress’s Constitution, the President’s Politics?
8/22/17 //
In-Depth Analysis
By Julia Azari: Is Congress doomed to react to Trump, and to wallow in the political discourse he has created like a toddler in a soiled diaper? Or can members of Congress create their own counter-narratives about the meaning and stakes of policy and process?
Attacking North Korea Would Be Illegal
8/10/17 //
Commentary
President Trump threatened this week to launch "fire and fury like the world has never seen" against North Korea. That is not something the Constitution lets him do without Congress.
