Jake Bernstein

Trump’s Unbridled Pardons

Trump demonstrated that the ability to grant pardons, one of the few areas of executive authority where a US president’s power is nearly absolute, is too often a miserly remedy for systemic injustice.

Loopholes for Kleptocrats

The term “tax haven” may conjure images of Caribbean islands and palm trees, but two recent books make the case that the world’s leading tax haven is America.

The Fundraising Pulpit

Performative fundraising favors simplistic narratives, melodramatic rhetoric, an implacable enemy, and rote phrases to crowd out reasoned debate.