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…
Ahead of the pivotal 2026 midterm elections, Politico reports that a consistently red state is being pushed away from Republicans, all because of a longstanding environmental crisis resulting in cancer-causing water.Once considered a swing state, in the last several election cycles, Iowa has emerged…
President Donald Trump delivered a widely-maligned speech on Thursday night claiming without evidence that China had stolen the 2020 election for Joe Biden. Even as he attempts to use this to justify having the Department of Homeland Security order states as to who can vote, a Wall Street Journal co…
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…