This week, attorneys for President Donald Trump are heading to Florida for hearings connected to three of his major civil lawsuits. These “high-stakes hearings,” according to Bloomberg News reporter Erik Larson, “follow a pair of major setbacks” Trump’s legal team has suffered in the courts.”Three h…
Since returning to the White House one year and a half ago, Donald Trump has used to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to target his political foes — from former FBI Director James Comey to New York State Attorney General Letitia James — while pardoning allies, loyalists and supporters, including…
On Friday, a popular Black-owned Atlanta restaurant responded to outrage over a photo circulating of the establishment’s owner with Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson, declaring that it was not a political endorsement.The restaurant, Toast on Lenox, made this assertion on Instag…
Sounding the alarm about “unchecked power… increasingly wreaking havoc” across the U.S., a pair of Harvard legal scholars wrote in a new piece for The Hill about their surprising suggestion to save the country and begin “speaking law to power.”Alexandra Natapoff and Guy-Uriel Charles are professor…
President Donald Trump’s latest tirade shows a leader so consumed by grievance that he’s once again lashing out in a way that even Fox News can’t quite smooth over. Chatting with The New Republic’s Greg Sargent for his Monday morning podcast, Harvard political scientist Ryan Enos argued that Trump’s…
President Donald Trump has been promoting a variety of makeover projects in Washington, DC, including some at the White House. One of them is a statue of the United States’ third president, Thomas Jefferson, which, according to the Daily Beast, was unveiled in the White House Rose Garden last week —…
President Donald Trump’s no-bid contract spree is turning Washington into a pay-to-play playground, and taxpayers are the ones getting stuck with the bill.According to the New Republic’s Timothy Noah, there’s everything from secret sweetheart deals to wildly inflated project costs, and the administr…
How much more blatant could Donald Trump’s abuse of office for self-interest be?Trump Media & Technology Group, parent company of the microblogging platform, announced this week it will sell a data feed to Wall Street companies who want just milliseconds of notice on Trump’s Truth Social posts that …
Huge international sporting events on the level of the FIFA World Cup are a prime opportunity for a country to make a good impression on the world, but as a new piece from MS NOW argued, President Donald Trump took the perfect chance for the U.S. to do so and “blew it.”In the Sunday piece, MS NOW’s …
The Trump administration this week released new rules pertaining to the Endangered Species Act, and as one nature photographer warned for MS NOW, it could very well be a “mortal blow” to the protections that have done much to bring certain animals back from the brink of extinction.Derrick Z. Jackson…