Calls abound for the removal of President Biden over his objection, using the involuntary disability provision, with Vice-President Kamala Harris to then assume the presidency. What the text of Section 4 makes clear, however, is than under that provision, she…
The Constitution and the President In the great debate over the Constitution, the powers of the president were a focal point of controversy. Antifederalists passionately objected to the entire federal system, seeing it as antithetical to republican freedom. The inability…
As I wrote in my last TAS article: The importance of settling remaining issues pertaining to presidential succession can hardly be overstated. Of 45 prior presidents, nine failed to complete their term: four were assassinated; four died of natural causes;…
Three American citizens, Tyler Thompson, Marcel Malanga, and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, were arrested by the Congolese military last month after getting mixed up in a failed coup led by Christian Malanga against the president of the Democratic Republic of the…
The Search for Reagan By Craig Shirley (Post Hill Press, 336 pages, $29) It was 20 years ago today, June 5, 2004, that Ronald Reagan passed away. I remember where I was when I heard the news. Many of you…
Yesterday, Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman elected president of Mexico. The 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City and climate scientist will replace her mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on Oct. 1. Sheinbaum’s victory was marred by the violence…
Writing in Foreign Affairs, Stuart Eizenstat contends that President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy was a success. “[D]uring his one term in office,” Eizenstat asserts, “Carter left an enduring and positive foreign policy legacy that few presidents who have served two…
Presidential historian Armitage Goodwin is the visiting associate teaching assistant at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Center for Harmonious Race Relations. Here he explains his recent voting in the prestigious Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey. As a participant in the clunkily…
Sportscaster and CNN contributor Bob Costas made headlines recently by calling former President Donald Trump “by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history” and referring to Trump supporters as being “in the throes of some sort of toxic…
