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…
One of the Trump family’s companies this week unveiled the latest in their long line of moneymaking schemes, and according to the D.C. insiders at Pod Save America, it constitutes “truly one of the most wildly corrupt things that has ever happened.”President Donald Trump, his family and their many b…
President Donald Trump has had no qualms about abusing his pardon authority during his second term, reportedly promising preemptive pardons to anyone close to him before he leaves office, but there are still legal avenues available to get around this “pardon-palooza” threat.Kimberly Wehle is a legal…
The Iran war is already controversial, as it has taken a toll on the US economy and was opposed by most Americans from the beginning. President Donald Trump has blood on his hands by waging the Iran war without any seeming purpose, at least according to a Republican who advised the previous GOP pres…