President Donald Trump is able to stay in power because of a “structural” problem in American democracy — at least according to a former Trump adviser who has previously warned about the nation losing its sense of shame regarding the Republican leader’s conduct.“America has a structural problem,” An…
President Donald Trump appears to be more and more consumed by his obsession with the 2020 election and his false claims about election fraud, and according to his one-time biographer, this fixation seems to be the result of a genuine “mental illness” separating him from reality.Trump’s 2020 obsessi…
Multiple experts are warning that President Donald Trump is gradually eroding American democracy through his actions since resuming office in 2025. Now, a new study from the American Journal of Political Science explains how so many Americans are willing to go along with his authoritarianism. To lea…
The bizarre new announcement out of President Donald Trump’s Pentagon has effectively “kicked a hornet’s nest,” according to a new report from The Hill, with experts expressing grave concern about the lack of scientific backing and the dangers the new policy could create.This week, Defense Secretary…
Even as Christian nationalist views decline throughout the United States, one pastor closely linked to President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is gaining more power through his influence at the Pentagon. “Pastor Doug Wilson gave a surprisingly dispassionate interview to NPR’s Le…
Donald Trump cruised back to the presidency thanks to “an informal court of influencers, podcasters and self-appointed power brokers,” but now, a new piece from Salon argues that his power is crumbling thanks to those very same people.”During his presidential campaigns and midterm election cycles, t…
There’s been a lot of discussion this past week about the meaning of integrity. You didn’t hear the word used directly; it was alluded to indirectly — in wondering whether Lindsey Graham was an immoral opportunist or clever pragmatist; in suspecting Todd Blanche of being more loyal to Trump than to …
When rapper Boosie Badazz — a.k.a. Torence Ivy Hatch Jr. — announced he was suing a lobbying firm that he paid to get him pardoned by President Donald Trump for alleged unlawful firearm possession, the music star did more than air his own grievances. According to a recent report, Hatch also shed lig…
Pete Hegseth may have terrible judgment, but his comic timing is vaudevillian.The former TV host who bills himself as America’s “secretary of war” chose the perfect moment — as his enraged presidential boss resumes the fruitless bombing of Iran — to announce an ambitious new Pentagon program of te…
President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, his former attorney Todd Blanche, has been widely criticized for admitting that he primarily views himself as Trump’s attorney and not doing enough for the victims of Trump’s longtime friend, the late Jeffrey Epstein. Yet even as Blanche gets in tr…