Roughly midway through the fall 2009 edition of the Washington Academic Internship Program, we'll be reading Mann and Ornstein's indictment of Congress, The Broken Branch, and we'll be listening to a presentation by Johns Hopkins professor Benjamin Ginsberg, who argues that the real problem with Congress is that it has been made subordinate by the growth of presidential power.
Meanwhile, readers of this blog might be interested in an article by Garry Wills in the current issue of The New York Review of Books, which makes something of the same case in the process of documenting the many ways in which the Obama administration has not departed from dubious precedents set by the previous administration. Read Wills's piece here.
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