By Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. (Retired) and David Bernell Former President Trump has asked the federal courts for sweeping immunity for virtually all actions he took as president. He says that acts committed in the White House are automatically official acts. His case reached the Supreme Court in April 2024 and a hearing was held... Continue Reading →
Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University and the author of the book Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? Made in partnership with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Access Episodes Ad-Free on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.... Continue Reading →
Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a columnist for The Washington Post. He is the author of many books including most recently The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 and Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again. Access Episodes Ad-Free on Patreon Make a one-time... Continue Reading →
Representative Mikie Sherrill represents the 11th Congressional District of New Jersey. She sits on the Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Readiness, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, and the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the United States Naval... Continue Reading →
by David Bernell and Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. (Retired) There is a story told about Benjamin Franklin that describes his interaction with a group of citizens at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. When asked by a woman named Elizabeth Willing Powel what type of government the delegates had established, a monarchy or... Continue Reading →
Barbara McQuade is a professor from practice at the University of Michigan Law School. She is also a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and a co-host of the podcast #SistersInLaw. Her new book Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America. This episode was made in partnership with the Andrea Mitchell Center for... Continue Reading →
Alexander Ward is a national security reporter at Politico and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the author of the book The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy after Trump. Access Episodes Ad-Free on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. Proudly sponsored by the Kellogg Institute... Continue Reading →
Jonathan Blitzer is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He won a 2017 National Award for Education Reporting for “American Studies,” a story about an underground school for undocumented immigrants. His writing and reporting have also appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Atavist, Oxford American, and The Nation. He is an... Continue Reading →
By David Bernell and Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. (Retired) There are many things we have learned since Donald Trump declared in 2015 that he was running for president. One of them is that no election in which Donald Trump is involved is normal. The election in 2024 is the fifth (including midterm elections) in which... Continue Reading →
By Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and David Bernell In 1776, in its Declaration of Independence, the United States of America announced the formation of a new nation that would be based on the principle that all people are created equal and have certain basic rights, among them “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and... Continue Reading →
