This book started out in the four star category, but ended up at a three for me. Woodward relates in (sometimes excrutiating) detail the fight to raise the debt limit in 2011. Really, when I say detail, I mean detail. He knows what people said and when they said it. To his credit, he doesn't do a...
In what is putatively a democracy, with power given by the people, and then shared among three coequal branches of government the United States Supreme Court stands apart. It is distinctly undemocratic: unelected, unaccountable, and secretive. The Supreme Court is where the power is, because it d...
I was in high school when Richard Nixon died, but I was young and my interests at that time weren't exceptionally political. My concerns at that time had more to do with Kurt Cobain's death just a few weeks prior. That meant more to me than that Nixon guy. I do remember having breakfast at a f...