I wrote about how a number of participants in Cancún felt that some sense of faith had been restored in the UN process. The reviews are still coming in, but it appears that progress was indeed made, that some highly useful, indeed critical mechanisms have been advanced, and that ongoing negotiations are going to take […]
Like a lot of progressives, I’m not over the moon about the “deal” that’s been struck in Washington on taxes. There are, however, some justifications for President Obama letting a lot of things fall out of what should have been a whole new approach to how we, the American taxpayers, are asked to invest in […]
Senatus Populusque Romanus – The Senate and the People of Rome. The old Roman Senate was, on paper, representative of the people. Because the US is a representative democracy, the US Senate was meant, up to a certain point, to perpetuate this same principle. It was, however, certainly less representative, from Day One, than its […]