President Donald Trump’s attempts to celebrate America’s 250th birthday as a referendum honoring himself, and simultaneously plastering memorials to himself all over Washington, D.C., is a literal “lost cause” that threatens democracy.“That’s some food for thought here in 2026, as an ailing, flailin…
Jimmy Carter’s campaign motto in 1976 was “Why Not the Best!” declaring everywhere he went: “I want to see us once again have a nation that’s as good and honest and decent and truthful and competent and compassionate and filled with love as are the American people.”Dictator Donald Trump wants the op…
President Donald Trump has been purging qualified federal workers from their roles and replacing them with loyalists — and his efforts have not received a lot of attention.“The board’s decision has no direct bearing on cases that the Supreme Court is expected to rule on this week, which could establ…
President Donald Trump is breaking precedent in an important way, according to two experts — he is unprecedented in his corruption.“Past presidents of both parties have recognized that the Oval Office is a public trust, not a business opportunity,” wrote The Hill’s David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschu…
President Donald Trump can be best politically taken down by being impeached for his offenses — even if the impeachments themselves do not result in his removal from office.After dismissing the recent wave of criticisms of the Democratic Party for nominating democratic socialists in a series of New …
In his clueless and clumsy style, JD Vance has unmasked the cynical corruption at the core of Donald Trump’s White House. Speaking at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on June 25, the vice president said, “As I joked … backstage, if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 1…
As many of you know by now, I am busy settling into my new desk in my latest home state of North Carolina.Settling in means changing licenses, license plates, utilities, insurance, and all the punishing bureaucratic stuff designed to make us scream out in pain. Nothing’s as easy as it should be, and…
As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, the global data we collect and analyze shows that the country is failing to “promote the general Welfare,” as the Constitution’s framers promised a little more than a decade later.We are scholars of human right…
President Donald Trump’s sons are profiting off of their father’s connections, including in a previously-undisclosed deal over a lucrative metal.“Their sons were soon doing business with partners in a deal that their fathers were negotiating, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Tru…
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York ripped into Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Friday night for saying that Republican control of Congress is the only thing keeping President Donald Trump from being held to account for his numerous scandals and abuses of po…