‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook

‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook

President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his power. “Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven…

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Books About Russia, Ukraine and the World Order Under Donald Trump

Books About Russia, Ukraine and the World Order Under Donald Trump

Defending a democratic Ukraine is crucial to the project of global freedom, he contends, and Putin’s influential brand of illiberalism cannot be confronted on friendly terms. Despite his book’s title, Vindman, a self-described neo-idealist and admirer of Tallis, spends much of “The Folly of Realism” criticizing old-school idealists. The American foreign policy establishment, he writes,…

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