Articles by Robert Zaller
May. 24, 2019
America, Democracy, and the Sixth Great Extinction
Is the fate of the planet — that is, of our fate on it — tied to the fate of democracy? I think there are…

May. 17, 2019
What can we do to finally get a fair trial in our courts?
What do Bill Cosby, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Leslie Moonves, Kevin Spacey, Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, James Levine, Charles Dutoit, Peter Martins, John Conyers and…

May. 10, 2019
Will the United States of America have an election in 2020?
In 2000, Vice President Al Gore conceded a disputed presidential election to George W. Bush after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended his legal challenge…

May. 3, 2019
The tale of the Reimann and Sackler families in America
The Reimann family is not a familiar name in America, but it ought to be: among the products it markets are Krispy Kreme doughnuts, Lysol…
Apr. 26, 2019
Making a call for the impeachment of President Trump
The Mueller Report has arrived, or as much of it as we have been permitted to see rather. As damning as its evidentiary detail is,…

Apr. 19, 2019
Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu crosses the red line
Benjamin Netanyahu has won his fifth term as Israel’s prime minister, and this summer he will surpass its founder, David Ben-Gurion, as its longest-serving chief…

Apr. 12, 2019
Death does not take holidays on the Supreme Court
The death penalty is dying a slow, lingering death in America, but for every day it continues we write a new chapter of moral infamy…

Apr. 5, 2019
Now is the time to start considering an impeachment
The long-awaited Mueller Report, 675 days in the making, has now landed with a thud of disappointment. Although we do not have the text but…

Mar. 15, 2019
The Left needs to deal with the anti-Semitism coming from its people
I have a few words of advice for Representative Ilhan Omar, the newly elected Muslim Congresswoman from Minnesota who has openly injected anti-Semitism into the…

Mar. 8, 2019
America: Where we are and where to go
To judge how far America has regressed since Richard Nixon took office in 1969, we need only look at the story of national reform since…
