James Madison

Putting What Where? Trying to Understand McCain's Slogan

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Recession, James Madison, Putting Country First, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Country First, Politics News

If we were to, as a society, put country first, who would define what "country" is or what putting it "first" might mean?

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What Books on America Has Sarah Palin Read?

Steve Clemons | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alexander Hamilton, Harriet Tubman, George W. Bush, Founding Fathers, James Madison, Balkans, Matt Damon, Sarah Palin, Aaron Burr, Yoshiro Mori, Condleezza Rice, Constitutional Convention, American History, Middle East, Suffragists, Political Literacy, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, Robert D. Kaplan, Winston Churchill Charles De Gaulle, Books, Washington Prize, Mao Tse Tung, Thomas Jefferson, Machiavelli, Konrad Adenauer, George Washington, Tom Delay, John Adams, Eastward to Tartary, Reading, Ron Chernow, Cicero, Caucasus, Politics News

I think that if ABC has another shot at her, or if any other journalists get to spend any time on this uncertain gamble for the second highest office in the land, they should give her a book test.

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Sarah Palin: A Right-Wing Gidget for Leader of the Free World

Michael Russnow | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Annapolis, Audie Murphy, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Russnow, Sergeant York, Fred Thompson, Michael Russnow, James Madison, San Francisco, Thomas Jefferson, Wasilla Alaska, Republican Convention, Sarah Palin, New York, Gidget, Politics News

Watching the Republican convention tonight, I was struck by a number of things, most notably how the prime-time star speakers whipped up the audience ...

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Obama/Gore 2008

Norman MacAfee | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics

Broken record here. The more I think about it, the more Al Gore seems the only really interesting choice for Barack Obama's vice presidential choice. ...

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History Lessons

Janet Ritz | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iran, John McCain, Rachel Maddow, George W. Bush, War With Iran, James Madison, Breaking Politics News, Thomas Jefferson, Iraq, Caesar, History Channel, 2008 Election, Unitary Executive, Solon, Politics News

The Bush administration's seeming incompetence, its torture memos and its rush to war parallels the way that Caesar and his contemporaries used war to further wealth and political ambition.

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The Biggest Loser: James Madison

The Brennan Center for Justice | Posted 02.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Checks and Balances, James Madison, Debates, 2008 Presidential Race, Offthebus, Home News

The issue of presidential power, which is an unlikely answer to pollsters' endless queries as to what is the most important issue in this election, is actually quite ubiquitous. Yet, the issue has not arisen - even once -- in any of the 40 debates.

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Jefferson's Revenge

Cass R. Sunstein | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Constitution, Politics News

In crucial ways, the tale of constitutional stability is a myth.

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Dennis Kucinich Makes History with HR-333 Impeach Cheney!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: James Madison, Dianne Feinstein, David Addington, Chuck Schumer, John Yoo, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Cheney, Kucinich Impeach, Impeach Dick Cheney, Impeach Cheney, Hr-333, Politics News

Even the most cursory reading of anything James Madison wrote on the subject of executive power clearly shows that Dick Cheney's expansive views of the powers of the Executive Branch are totally un-American.

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Constitution Day 2007

Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes | Posted 09.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: Constitution Day, Declaration of Independence, James Madison, Ronald Reagan, Constitution, Politics News

We revere the framers. We gobble up books about them and love snippets of their wisdom. They have become our secular gods. Yet we have little sense of what it was they actually invented.

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Outrage Fatigue

John Seery | Posted 09.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Petraeus, Duke Cunningham, Melancton Smith, Al Franken, Tom Delay, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Natural Aristocracy, Larry Craig, Dick Cheney, Bush, Founders, Politics News

The Duke Cunninghams, Tom DeLays, and Larry Craigs don't seem to be simply the isolated exceptions and bad apples--they're just the ones who got caught.

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