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The serious contenders to become the Democratic Party’s 2028 candidate for President, in no particular order, are Pete Buttigieg, Andy Beshear, Mark Kelly, Josh Shapiro, Kamala Harris, JB Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rahm Emanuel. With Emanuel...

The title of this HL number poses a question not just for Graham Platner but the Democratic Party as well.  Platner’s 10 minute, 51 second public address “suspending his Senate campaign on July 9 (PLEASE WATCH) came over either as an “I’ll be back” or an audition for...

During the scores of readings of the entire Constitution (half of those seeking comfort during the Trump presidencies) I’ve constantly marveled at how smart those guys generally were and frequently find something that never had registered in all previous readings and...

Seemingly a thousand times “the nattering nabobs of negativism”[1] have correctly observed that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28.  The strait’s closure is just one measure of how much worse than the JCPOA Trump’s...

Nicholas Rostow’s new book Proportional to the Mischief - International Law and U.S. Grand Strategy” (Carolina Academic Press, May 1, 2026) is an intelligent, incisive and urgently needed call for the United States to resume formulating and adhering to a grand...

When in the fourth semester at a school regularly rated as equal or higher than Harvard, I got my first A-, I took my three suitemates to HoJos for fried clams and milkshakes, because it was the highest grade any of us had gotten as of that halfway mark in college. ...