The bacchic chant of self-congratulation fills America over the way the Constitution has triumphed, allowing us to replace the amoral Nixon with the openhearted Ford. Indeed, a noxious cloud has lifted. But does that vindicate our system? We must dissent.
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At its Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week, the Biden administration unveiled a “U.S.-Caribbean Partnership to Address the Climate Crisis 2030,” or PACC 2030, aimed at “strengthening energy security” and “promoting climate adaptation and resilience.” But that partnership seems to be off to a rocky start. Several Caribbean countries had threatened to boycott the event in protest over the White House’s decision to exclude Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba from the summit. Most did end up going and sent delegations to another... Читать дальше...
Scene from a marriage: A husband, having betrayed his wife and humiliated her, lavishly, in public, plays her a video of himself arguing on television. Grinning helplessly at his own against-the-odds scrappiness, he keeps looking over to the wife for approval. In the unforgiving light of their home office, she is a picture of weary, dignified suffering, large eyes turning toward heaven, elegant fingers twitching with unease. Even if you’d never seen these two before and knew nothing of their history... Читать дальше...
Up to now, the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings have been rightly invoked as the gold standard for congressional investigations. But despite the historical prominence those hearings have gained as the decades have passed, Congress’ Watergate efforts started out as a sleepy affair. The early hearings proceeded at the leisurely pace of the afternoon soap operas that they pre-empted on the broadcast networks. After the first day of the hearings in May 1973, Jules Witcover began his page-one Washington Post story by noting wryly... Читать дальше...
Eighteen months after a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters overran the Capitol in an effort to overturn the presidential election, the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection held its first public hearing outlining what members presented, unequivocally, as a coordinated conspiracy abetted by the president himself.
