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Contributors from nine different regions & nations evaluate the presidency of George W. Bush. The picture that emerges is more ambivalent than the common characteristic of Bush as an unsophisticated cowboy. East Europeans have more sympathy for Bush's "axis of evil" declaration than do their Western counterparts. South Asians & Arabs dislike Bush's unilateralist tendencies but admit a grudging esteem for his capacity to promote American interests. In Latin America & the People's Republic of China, Bush's free trade policies have stirred hopes for improved living standards, but his position on immigration has bred resentment. Africa & Southeast Asia view Bush as an unreconstructed Cold Warrior, while Russia regards him as a partner by necessity. 1 sidebar. K. Coddon

"Electing a president is a key right and responsibility of being a U.S. citizen. The process for choosing the next leader can seem complex. It is important to understand how presidential elections work so that people can be informed voters. Learn more about how Americans choose a president and why every vote matters"--

The US president has many names and many responsibilities. Readers learn about the president's powers and how they came to be. Through full-color photographs and interesting sidebars, readers are introduced to the office of the president with age-appropriate language and content. Fascinating fact boxes further engage readers with social studies information that complements the social studies curriculum

The President of the ICRC, Mr. Alexandre Hay, was in Italy from 15 to 20 June for an official visit. He was accompanied by Mr. Sergio Nessi, head of the Financing Division, and Mr. Melchior Borsinger, delegate-general for Europe and North America. The purpose of the visit was to contact the Italian authorities, to give them a detailed account of the ICRC role and function and to obtain greater moral and material support from them.

With scarcely a ripple of protest a popular magazine recently carried a cover picture retouched to portray President Ford as a circus clown stepping off the Presidential airplane. The two "best sellers" on the Presidency are scathing indictments of President Nixon's staff and, by inference, of Nixon himself. In The Imperial Presidency Arthur Schlesinger, who sets the pace for many intellectuals, argues that the powers of the office must be curtailed. President Ford found his veto power quite ineffective in the closing days of the 1974 Congress. And the Democratic leadership of the $4th Congress is disussing a legislative program without reference to the President. The Presidency obviously isn't what it used to be.

Trivers and Willard (1973) argued that, in polygynous species, parents "in good condition" should bias investment toward sons, while parents "in poor condition" should bias investment toward daughters. Biographical evidence on men in the U.S. executive branch—including presidents, vice presidents, and cabinet secretaries—suggests they produced more sons than daughters in the first cohort (Presidents Washington through Garfield), but roughly equal numbers of sons and daughters in the second cohort (Presidents Arthur through Reagan). The same pattern holds for presidents' fathers and sons. Presidents' wills reflect the pattern again: men in the first cohort (Washington through Garfield) favored their sons, overall, slightly more than their daughters; for men in the second cohort (Arthur through Reagan), that bias disappears.

Neil Puffett meets Dave Hill, president of the ADCS, 2016/17

Neil Puffett meets Alan Wood, the new president of the ADCS

Political scientists rate highly those presidents who govern in wartime (except George W. Bush) or expand the size, scope, and expense of the federal government.

Patrick G. Eddington


As you probably have heard or otherwise know by now, the 37‐​count indictment against former President Trump has been released (WARNING: large file). I've highlighted a number of sections in yellow that I think are particularly telling.
For the benefit of those who are not fluent in Intelligence Community (IC) speak, I offer the following translations regarding certain key acronyms contained in the indictment:
HCS = Human intelligence Control System. Think confidential, foreign national sources.
TK = Talent‐​Keyhole. That's satellite imagery‐​derived information.
And I doubt I need to explain that FISA stands for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but this info is clearly derived from the FISA Section 702 program that's up for renewal/​expiration on New Years Eve this year.
What nobody on the leftist cable ecosphere is talking about right now is the ongoing Biden Documentgate investigation. And as I noted almost six months ago:
In contrast, President Joe Biden will not be indicted, much less prosecuted, because of a 1973 Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel opinion that categorically asserts, "The indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions."

It may well be that Special Counsel Robert Hur will determine that President Biden should not be prosecuted for having classified documents in his possession after leaving government service. I personally don't understand how that conclusion could be reached, but I also don't have access to Hur's investigative findings to date, so I am withholding judgment for now. However, unless Attorney General Merrick Garland rescinds that 50‐​year‐​old internal Justice Department opinion—and he should—it will be difficult for many people not to conclude that there is, in fact, no possibility of equal justice under the law when a former president can be prosecuted and a sitting president cannot be for committing exactly the same offense.

En un momento como el actual, en el que los políticos centran la atención de los ciudadanos, nuestra sociedad, decepcionada con los máximos representantes de la democracia española y los candidatos a serlo, demanda más y mejor liderazgo político. Pero ¿cómo podemos evaluar los éxitos y fracasos de los presidentes españoles? ¿Qué factores han influido más en su mandato: su personalidad o la oportunidad y el contexto? Con objetividad académica y estilo cercano, José Luis Álvarez explica el auge y la trayectoria de los presidentes Adolfo Suárez, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Felipe González, José María Aznar, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Mariano Rajoy y Pedro Sánchez y otras cuestiones que hoy se revelan vitales por el impacto que han tenido en la ciudadanía. ¿Cuánto ansían el poder y qué precio están dispuestos a pagar? ¿Son nuestros políticos visionarios o gestores? ¿Cuál es su estilo de toma de decisiones? ¿De qué colaboradores se rodean? ¿Quieren y pueden transformar el país? Los presidentes españoles es un libro de lectura imprescindible en el que encontrarás todas las herramientas que te permitirán evaluar el liderazgo predidencual en particular y político en general. Además la obra dedica especial atención al aprendizaje mutuo entre el liderazgo presidencial y el liderazgo empresarial.

American public law has no answer to the question of how a court should evaluate the president's assertion of statutory authority. In this Article, I develop an answer by making two arguments. First, the same framework of judicial review should apply to claims of statutory authority made by the president and federal administrative agencies. This argument rejects the position that the president's constitutional powers should shape the question of statutory interpretation presented when the president claims that a statute authorizes his actions. Once statutory review is separated from consideration of the president's constitutional powers, the courts should insist, as they do for agencies, that the president's actions be justified by an identifiable statutory authorization. The statutory president, I suggest, is subject to administrative law. Second, within the framework of judicial review applicable to agencies, the president's claims of statutory authority should receive deference under the rule of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. The president's accountability, visibility, and the transparency of presidential orders provide strong grounds for applying Chevron deference to the president's assertions of statutory authority. This theory thus emphasizes the role of Congress in defining the boundaries of presidential power, while according deference to the president's interpretations of ambiguities within those boundaries. In this way, it structures the judicial role to demand that political accountability be the basis for political power