President John F. Kennedy with his nephew, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr — The White House, c.1962 The single greatest risk to our electoral process is neither manipulation of the polls nor attacks undermining results; it is a press corps that covers candidates with a predetermined bias. The treatment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exemplifies this […]
Marjorie Cohn: Trump Moves the World Closer to “Doomsday”
In 1987, the United States and the Soviet Union adopted the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in an effort to eliminate missiles on hair-trigger alert for nuclear war due to their short flight times. It was the first time the two countries agreed to destroy nuclear weapons. That treaty outlawed nearly 2,700 ballistic or land-based cruise missiles with a range of […]