August 2026

America is being dragged toward a modern moral reckoning.

Pundit S.E. Cupp questions the wisdom of setting President Donald Trump up with unfettered power for the second half of his term, especially considering the mess that his first two years have delivered.

Conservative writer Nick Catoggio argues that President Trump’s policies, including military failures and rising debt, are eroding U.S. strength and the Republican Party’s national security advantage.

Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman left no room for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to hide in a blistering Friday night fact check on MS NOW.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli promised President Donald Trump that California was “a fraudster’s paradise,” and pledged would announce charges within weeks of his appointment. That was two months ago.

“The Republican Party we have is an authoritarian embracing cult. So they will do whatever he wants them to do, as opposed to being the Congress that our founders envisioned. An utter check on executive power. We don’t have that.”

President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies continue to push a far-right legal doctrine known as the “unitary executive theory,” arguing that the U.S. Constitution grants presidents maximum executive power.

“Voting for someone who hates you never works out for anyone. The easiest way to tell if you are hated is to listen and watch. Hear the words and watch the actions.”

Former prosecutors warn the new rule completely guts decades of anti-corruption progress.

Republicans generally lead Democrats on the issue of crime, and have for years. But someone President Donald Trump is no longer leading on this ironclad GOP issue.According to a recent Yougov Economist survey, when people were asked “do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling c…