The Trump administration keeps producing layered cakes of executive abuse, with one form of abuse on top of another, all the way
Read MoreSurprising absolutely no one, Trump administration “border czar” Tom Homan was recorded last September on camera by undercover FBI agents accepting a
Read MoreThe United States military has traditionally been composed of citizen soldiers drawn from all groups and political affiliations. A key aspect of
Read MoreDonald Trump has been trying to lay the groundwork for a purge of his political opposition by blaming criticism of his administration for a
Read MoreIn a monologue, comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel derided conservatives for exploiting the shooting of Charlie Kirk to “score political
Read MoreIn yet another bizarre display of presidential play-acting, Donald Trump announced that he is designating “Antifa,” which is not an organization, as a “terrorist organization,”
Read MoreAs part of the administration’s attempt to use the shooting of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to suppress dissent, Attorney General Pam Bondi
Read MoreDonald Trump’s lawless mass deportation campaign is turning America into the kind of “Third World” country foreigners from “First World” nations fear
Read MoreThe second Trump administration will be remembered for some of the most spectacular official corruption in our nation’s history—and that’s saying something.
Read MoreExploiting the shooting of Charlie Kirk by a gunman whose motives are still unclear and incoherent, the Trump administration is now announcing that they
Read MoreDonald Trump asked Federal Housing Finance Agency head Bill Pulte to abuse his power by digging up accusations against Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook,
Read MoreThe Trump administration is already policing the political ideas of foreigners applying for visas to the United States, blocking entry for those who criticizes
Read MoreEven before we know who killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk and why, Donald Trump is using his death as an excuse to
Read MoreAs part of his illegal shakedown of CBS News, in which he blackmailed Paramount by holding up a merger, Donald Trump forced CBS to
Read MoreDonald Trump recently boasted about a U.S. airstrike against a small boat with 11 people on board, claiming that they were all
Read MoreDonald Trump has pursued so many deeply unpopular policies that Republicans are almost certain to lose a large number of seats and
Read MoreDonald Trump likes to deflect scrutiny of his own misconduct by accusing others of the same crimes—and now he can use his
Read MoreThe right wants us to believe that Trump is a champion of free markets. Instead, he is increasingly adopting a Chinese model of partial
Read MoreNo law in the United States bans burning the American flag. State laws that did so were struck down by the Supreme Court in
Read MoreAfter deploying the National Guard and the U.S. Marines to Los Angeles, which was found to be illegal by a federal judge, Donald Trump
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