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Imprisoning Partisanship

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scaling back police reforms and ramping up the war on drugs. Even in an era where Trump supporters don shirts reading "Blue Lives Matter," this is an alarming development.

Nicole Hemmer

Reorganizing government not an easy task

Chris Lu, former deputy Labor Secretary and now a senior fellow with the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, has come by a little skepticism of government re-orgs the hard way and offers his take on reorganization efforts by the new administration on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Chris Lu

Trump's action on Syria was not foreign policy doctrine, just impulsiveness

The search for a Trump doctrine is futile. Trump is not a man of doctrines, but a man of impulses. In his brief time in politics, he has been enthusiastically inconsistent on nearly every front, save some parts of tax and trade policy.

Nicole Hemmer

Past Present: The Graham Rule, the Nuclear Option, and Pepsi Protesting

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate Mike Pence's rules for women colleagues, the end of the Senate filibuster, and Pepsi's attempt to coopt Black Lives Matter.

Nicole Hemmer

The Unwelcoming Women's Movement

Mitchell believes what so many women I know are unwilling to say out loud: that the women's rights movement has been hijacked. It's now the reproductive rights movement. And it's become intolerant of women who have anything other than dogmatic views about abortion rights.

Mary Kate Cary

Neil Gorsuch confirmed: US Senate vote Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee to the bench

Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and a former judicial fellow at the US Supreme Court, told The Independent every president has nominated ideological jurists and that the current court’s voting record shows justices exercise independence from politics.

Barbara Perry