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Acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and Senior Adviser Jared Kushner arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on December 7, 2018.

Loyalty Above All: The “Shallow State” of the Trump Administration

A compilation of executive branch positions deprived of competence and expertise, and filled instead with political loyalists.
Trump looks out from the Truman Balcony as he arrives at the White House upon his return from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he underwent treatment for Covid-19, in Washington, DC, on October 5, 2020. He does not wear a face mask.

Shaky Hands in the Oval Office

Like another president's illness, Trump's bout with COVID-19 exposes the risks of a personalized foreign policy that dismisses national security structures.
Trump and Barr

Clear Goal of Barr/Durham Probe is to Scare Off Intelligence Community

In order for their counter-narrative to stick, President Trump and his associates need to destroy all trust in the Intelligence Community.

Trump’s Four-Pronged War on the Administrative State

Among the many things the first year of the Trump presidency has given us is a new genre of op-ed.  What might be called the resignation-confessional is headlined with some variation…

Deep State Dissonance

U.S. National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers delivers remarks arguing for the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on October 13, 2017 in…
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