President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement have caused a major disruption in the partisan nature of “patriotism,” according to an extensive new report from Politico, mirroring a similar shift caused by the far right on a global scale.On Sunday, Politico reported on the findings of its latest poll,…
A former adviser to President George W. Bush is accusing the following Republican leader, President Donald Trump, of creating a culture of racism in America — as captured by a single photograph.Describing a photograph in which members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front stood around a seemi…
President Donald Trump was dealt another bruising loss from the Supreme Court on one of his biggest political goals, and as one GOP strategist argued for MS NOW, the typical backlash from his MAGA supporters was “especially galling” this time around, and called into question the movement’s treatment…
In the classic 1950 film “Sunset Boulevard,” aging silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) pretends that Hollywood is still as it was when she was at her peak, creating a grotesque charade that obscures unpleasant realities. Drawing from rumors that this is President Donald Trump’s favorite …
President Donald Trump has done nearly incalculable damage to the federal government and the guardrails meant to rein in corruption, but as two legal scholars revealed for The Hill this week, his “most consequential casualties” are a key group of employees that some may not have heard of.Published S…
When President Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act, opponents accused the new bill of including “death panels.” Now President Donald Trump is including measures that by the same logic could also be considered death panels — and, according to a conservative commentator, those same critics are…
This week the Supreme Court contradicted itself in such glaring terms that a conservative justice admitted it could not be legally justified. In Trump v. Slaughter, the republican majority ruled that Trump can fire federal agency commissioners and directors without cause, despite statutory language …
With the nation’s 250th birthday, here’s a quick comparison to other US leaders.He single-handedly tanked the economy with high prices resulting from tariffs and the Iran War. Trump’s defunding government agencies and scientific research, along with hyperinflation, has created an impossible job mark…
President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released a draft report on American religious history that, according to experts, gets a lot of basic facts wrong about its purported subject.“A new draft report from a Trump administration task force presents a competing vision of America’s trad…
It was 250 years ago, on July 4, 1776, that the American Declaration of Independence was signed at the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. The United States’ America 250 celebrations come during a time of great political turbulence in the United States, and in The Guard…