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…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth just hijacked more promotions of high-ranking service members, this time blocking career professionals with exemplary records who were on track to become one-star generals and admirals. Not only is Hegseth’s behavior unusual, there is no clear legal authority for wh…
President Donald Trump’s recent speech for America’s 250th birthday celebration was riddled with “significant” signs of possible “neurological decline,” according to one licensed pathologist, particularly his numerous slurred mispronunciations of certain words and phrases.On Wednesday, Trump deliver…
A prominent biographer of President Donald Trump has exposed new details about the reaction within his administration to his unusually sycophantic young aide, claiming that some in his inner circle have been “appalled” by the situation.Natalie Harp, 34, is an executive assistant to the president, ha…
Let me get right to the point. The Senate should not confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general. Blanche, who used to be Trump’s private lawyer, has treated the Justice Department as Trump’s private law firm. He still believes that Trump — rather than the United States — is his client.At the very leas…
President Donald Trump’s administration has become mired in embarrassment over his latest botched remodeling project, but according to a new analysis from MS NOW, the threats he has made in response to the affair reveal him as both “comical” and “ominous.”As part of his ongoing campaign to remodel i…
President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” initiative has been exposed as a plot to grant its member states “sweeping immunity,” per a report from The Guardian, protecting them from “any arrest, detention or legal proceedings in the courts,” among other things, as a result of its most contentious goa…