Yale Daily News

Two weeks ago, many of the finest legal thinkers in the country gathered at Yale Law School to discuss the Constitution in 2020. Their task, […]

April 25, 2005

During the final year of the Reagan Administration, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy published two remarkable documents. One, titled “The Constitution in […]

April 4, 2005

For many people who opposed President Bush’s re-election, myself included, foreign policy was the single most important reason for our opposition. We believed that Bush […]

March 21, 2005

My friend Ross Douthat has a column in the current Atlantic Monthly about his experience as an undergraduate at Harvard. According to Douthat, college life […]

February 21, 2005

What will world politics look like over the next few decades? Will the United States be able to retain the dominant geopolitical position that it […]

February 7, 2005

Imagine that Johnny, hard up on cash, decides to rob a bank along with a few buddies. While his associates watch the doors and man […]

January 24, 2005

America’s electoral system has many features that its backers would call quirks, but that its critics would describe as grave flaws. The Electoral College focuses […]

November 29, 2004

Once it became clear that President Bush had been re-elected, the soul-searching and backbiting began almost immediately within the Democratic Party. Some characterized the party’s […]

November 8, 2004

Growing up in Boston, I learned at an early age the iron laws of Massachusetts baseball and politics. The Red Sox never win the World […]

October 25, 2004

here are many ways to run a campaign and many ways for a candidate to convince people to vote for him. First, a candidate can […]

October 11, 2004

During my first year at Yale Law, the entire school was abuzz about the War on Terror cases that were then moving up through the […]

September 27, 2004