In the classic 1950 film “Sunset Boulevard,” aging silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) pretends that Hollywood is still as it was when she was at her peak, creating a grotesque charade that obscures unpleasant realities. Drawing from rumors that this is President Donald Trump’s favorite …
President Donald Trump has done nearly incalculable damage to the federal government and the guardrails meant to rein in corruption, but as two legal scholars revealed for The Hill this week, his “most consequential casualties” are a key group of employees that some may not have heard of.Published S…
When President Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act, opponents accused the new bill of including “death panels.” Now President Donald Trump is including measures that by the same logic could also be considered death panels — and, according to a conservative commentator, those same critics are…
This week the Supreme Court contradicted itself in such glaring terms that a conservative justice admitted it could not be legally justified. In Trump v. Slaughter, the republican majority ruled that Trump can fire federal agency commissioners and directors without cause, despite statutory language …
With the nation’s 250th birthday, here’s a quick comparison to other US leaders.He single-handedly tanked the economy with high prices resulting from tariffs and the Iran War. Trump’s defunding government agencies and scientific research, along with hyperinflation, has created an impossible job mark…
President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released a draft report on American religious history that, according to experts, gets a lot of basic facts wrong about its purported subject.“A new draft report from a Trump administration task force presents a competing vision of America’s trad…
It was 250 years ago, on July 4, 1776, that the American Declaration of Independence was signed at the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. The United States’ America 250 celebrations come during a time of great political turbulence in the United States, and in The Guard…
Hundreds of members of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front descended on Washington DC Saturday morning as the nation’s capital prepared to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.Members of the group, wearing masks and carrying Confederate and US flags, rode the…
On Tuesday night, the establishment wing of the Democratic Party got a message it would prefer to pretend it didn’t hear. In New York, Mamdani-backed progressives swept the congressional primaries, ousting two sitting Democratic congressmen and taking an open seat in a single evening. Former city co…
After the U.S. bombed Venezuela in the middle of the night and abducted President Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump was quick to threaten legitimately-elected governments in the region. In particular, Trump implied a hazy future conflict with Mexico in an interview with Fox News Saturday mornin…