5 August 2019

MICHAEL HIRSH. Boris and Donalds Wrecking Ball (Foreign Policy)

It will be a new sort of special relationship as the men who lead the U.S. and the U.K. work to undo what their predecessors built after World War II.

26 October 2018

MICHAEL HIRSH. Who Will Speak for the Democrats?

Nancy Pelosi believes she has one more great task left in her long careersaving American democracy. If, as expected, the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives on November 6, Pelosi may become the first Speaker to regain the position in more than six decades (the legendary Sam Rayburn did it in 1955). And at what a moment: Pelosi and the House Democrats believeand a huge number of voters agreethat they are all that stands between the future of the republic and the broad-based assault on democratic values led by Donald Trump, one of the few people in Washington...