TikTok flip-flop: What’s the president’s power over foreign companies?
If you’d never heard of TikTok before the coronavirus pandemic sent us all into our homes for months, you’ve probably heard of it now. With little to do at home, millions of Americans turned to TikTok...
6 Aug 202025min
How America votes is inherently unpredictable. So why do polling?
In the run-up to any modern presidential election, assessing a candidate’s successes and failures has served as fodder for political pundits, analysts and campaign advisers. And in part, those assessm...
30 Jul 202030min
A double down on federal force, a do-over on coronavirus
The United States is in search of leadership on many significant challenges we face at this difficult moment in our country.And on two major issues — the handling of the coronavirus pandemic and prote...
23 Jul 202035min
Conventions vs. covid-19: Trump’s push for a spectacle while the virus surges
The 2020 presidential nominating conventions will look little like the political mega-events we’ve seen in this country for the past few decades.The novel coronavirus pandemic has made the notion of h...
16 Jul 202026min
Will the Court’s decision on electors prevent (at least some) election mayhem?
Much of American democracy runs on precedent. How things have worked in the past helps us understand how they ought to work now. Many parts of our democracy function because years of established norms...
9 Jul 202019min
July 4 special: 'The Framers would not recognize the modern presidency.’
Over the past few years making the“Can He Do That?” podcast, a few episodes have stuck with us. In particular, the episodes that keenly capture the role of the U.S. president that offer particular ins...
2 Jul 202028min
Virus cases are surging in the U.S. Is our government better prepared now?
In the United States, novel coronavirus infections set a single-day national record Wednesday. For now it seems like deaths are not growing at the same pace as cases, but it’s clear that this virus is...
25 Jun 202027min
An ‘erratic’ and ‘stunningly uninformed’ commander in chief: Inside Bolton’s book
John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Trump, wrote a book,“The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” The book offers a portrait of President Trump as an erratic and ignor...
18 Jun 202015min
