The Big Picture and the Closeup

Decommissioning Guantanamo, releasing or trying its inmates: Not so complicated as it may appear.

Detroit had my whole lifetime to get this right: Snapshots of the rise and fall of the automobile industry and its home turf.

We really do need two parties. So how do the Republicans provide a choice, not an echo, while returning to the mainstream of our politics? It’s a No-Brainer.

Will our next President reverse the dangerous overextension of executive power? Michael Traynor’s talk at the American Law Institute conjures up memories of ancient Rome.

If power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, as Kissinger said, and in a National Enquirer world we always learn about the sex lives of the powerful, we have to get smarter about how we react to what we always find out.

All over the political spectrum, people are slow to comprehend, quick to take offense at the Barry Blitt New Yorker cover of the fist-bumping Obamas. Can’t Take A Joke? Apparently not.

The Boumediene case was another “win” for the Guantanamo detainees. But with nobody leaving Guantanamo without permission on Bush and Cheney’s watch, the Administration is the real winner.

Speaking for the Muddlers I worried about what a lifetime of work in a firm like this would turn me into. I looked around at the senior partners and I did not see anyone I wanted to be like. They lived with the insecurity of having to prove themselves continually in this highly competitive environment, […]

A lawyer so brilliant he could not recognize when his own advice was bad: for his client, the President, and for the country. Disbar John Yoo.

“Kristen” The tragicomic tale of “Kristen” and Client 9 rekindles the perennial debate about legalizing prostitution. And it’s as confusing as ever. Let’s get past the obvious: there are almost always victims. Set “Kristen” aside for the moment. Client 9’s wife and children surely qualify. But I think few of us would wish to make […]