The Case for Militant Democracy (Katharina Pistor, Project Syndicate Times)

With many in Germany calling for a ban on Alternative für Deutschland, the far right and its fellow travelers are portraying themselves as victims of political persecution. But they are trying to conflate two different types of regime: constitutional democracy and authoritarian “people’s democracy.” NEW YORK – The question of whether, and how, democracies should …

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The Supreme Court Just Rewarded Trump for Brazenly Breaking the Law ( Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern)

The conservative justices seem ready to give Trump near-total control over the executive branch—with one notable exception. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images and Win McNamee/Getty Images. The Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a huge victory on Thursday, breaking with nearly a century of precedent protecting agency leaders from presidential removal. All …

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