Speaking for the Tuesday podcast “Right Now” with Perry Bacon, Don Moynihan, a public policy professor at the University of Michigan, discussed President Donald Trump’s efforts to control government institutions, noting there’s a major flaw in the president’s authoritarian agenda. “You wrote this pi…
This Wednesday, July 15 and Thursday, July 16, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding confirmation hearings for Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche — who President Donald Trump has nominated to take over the position permanently. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), a key swing vote, is sa…
During the recent 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump and longtime European allies were obvious. Prominent military veterans like retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling and retired U.S. Navy Admiral William McRaven believe that Trump fails to see the va…
A progressive US senator on Monday welcomed a federal judge’s ruling that found President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was an illegal act of self-dealing, while calling for the Republican to be impeached for a third time.Trump and his two eldest sons, Donal…
In his latest commentary, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich argues that the escalating conflict between the United States and Iran represents not a new war, but the continuation of an ongoing crisis—one that was virtually inevitable given the deeply flawed agreements that preceded it. With renewed…
President Donald Trump may have just sold out one of America’s most stalwart allies, according to a recent report.“Some close advisers to President Trump fear the biggest substantive result of the China summit is heightened danger that Chinese President Xi Jinping will invade Taiwan in the next five…
President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, his former personal lawyer and current acting attorney general Todd Blanche, is already under fire for allegedly not releasing millions of pages from the Epstein files and persecuting Trump’s political enemies. Yet according to former deputy assist…
On Friday, President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into who leaked about security issues with his Qatari-gifted Air Force One. “Within 24 hours,” however, “the leak probe leaked,” and according to Miles Taylor — who himself acted as a whistleblower during the first Trump administration — thi…
President Donald Trump went on an incoherent rant on Monday that once again put on display his apparent difficulty staying focused on a single subject.While speaking on the TV program “Fox & Friends” on Monday, Trump meandered away from discussing the two-year anniversary of the assassination attemp…
According to the Wall Street Journal, President Donald Trump has sought to fuse government with business and create a “state capitalism” that is “unprecedented” in recent history. Many commenters have suggested, however, that “this is not state capitalism” but “another ism MAGA is always yelling abo…