A Journal of Ideas

President

The Prerogative to Pardon

As with everything else, Donald Trump is pushing the pardon process to the breaking point. Can it be salvaged?

By Liz Oyer

Ending Corrupt Pardons

Reforming how presidential pardons are awarded presents a rare bipartisan opportunity.

By Daniel Carpenter Harold Pollack

Our Constitution Wasn't Built for Trump

It might finally be time to reconsider the adequacy of our eighteenth-century Constitution for our twentieth-century reality.

By Sanford Levinson

Post-Mortem

With everyone on the left, from the Hillary supporters to Bernie enthusiasts, offering their own post-mortems, the truth about Clinton's defeat may lie somewhere in between.

By Kevin Mattson