Cathryn Kriewaldt (RMIT): Ignorance is Bliss: Why Dementia is a Useful Metaphor for Society's Coming Energy Descent. Elysa Darling and Alice Woolley (Calgary): Nasty Women and the Rule of Law. In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty, had to ask his aides in an aside what the New START was. David Corn on the mysterious disappearance of the biggest scandal in Washington: Whatever happened to the Trump-Russia story? The Mattis-Bannon race for shadow president may be the most important election of our lives — and it will be decided by a single vote.
Even the best case scenario for Trump's stolen Supreme Court is a progressive dystopia. The GOP has turned against democracy, and Neil Gorsuch is their champion. The Gorsuch confirmation just got much more interesting. Gorsuch v. Trump: It's worth thinking about the possible calculus that would lead to withdrawal of the nomination — the political damage would be immense, but it would have some logic, at least under the non-Euclidean principles of the Trumpian universe.
