These MAGA Republicans long for a 'Red Caesar' to 'impose a dictatorship' o
In the past, the Claremont Institute — founded in 1979 by Barry Goldwater ally Harry V. Jaffa — was known for being a conventional conservative think tank. But in recent years, Claremont has taken a far-right hyper-MAGA turn.Some members have promoted the idea that the United States, in order to sur...
Trump's latest statement may show the authoritarian Republicans have lost t
I want to share a thought with you. It may sound strange. It's that the 2020 presidential election may have been the Republican Party's best and last shot of an authoritarian takeover of the country. Now that it has failed, now that a majority of the American people understands what's going on and w...
Mollie Tibbetts' father: Don't use her death for a political agenda
Since authorities revealed the suspect in the killing of Mollie Tibbetts is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Iowa’s Latino communities have been the target of rising anti-immigrant sentiment.
Trump was right. The rest of the G7 were wrong | George Monbiot | Opinion |
In arguing for a sunset clause to the trade agreement, this odious man is exposing the corruption of liberal democracy, says George Monbiot, a regular contributor to the Guardian
A professor of German history explains the true horror of Trump’s response
As a scholar of modern German history, I've been working on a study of antisemitism in Germany and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What I saw unfold over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia and then at Bedminster, New Jersey gave me the horrible, sinking ...
Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next president. Democrats have little understanding of why he is winning -- and winning handily; and even many Republicans don't see him as a Republican and are trying to stop him, but don't know how. There are various theories: People are angry and he speaks to their anger. People don't think much of Congress and want a non-politician. Both may be true. The Democratic Party has not been taking seriously many of the reasons for Trump's support and the range of that support. And the media has not been discussing many of the reasons for Trump's support. That needs to change.
'BFD': Biden plan to reform 'rogue' Supreme Court hailed by experts as 'rem
In what is being seen by legal experts as a “major” and “remarkable” change in his positions, President Joe Biden on Monday issued a three-point plan to reform the U.S. Supreme Court, after years of ethics scandals, largely by conservative justices, some of which have been called actual violations o...
Highlights From the Supreme Court Arguments on Free Speech and Social Media
A majority of the justices appeared convinced that government officials should be able to try to persuade private companies, whether news organizations or tech platforms, not to publish information so long as the requests are not backed by coercive threats.