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…
When President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement regained control of America’s government in early 2025, there were multiple reports of them having fun as they laid off thousands of government workers and implemented the Project 2025 agenda. Yet between Trump’s underwhelming Great American State Fa…
ICE agents just shot and killed two more innocent people, a man in Texas and another in Maine. Both men were legally authorized to work in the United States; both were shot in the early morning while driving to work.Neither victim was ICE’s intended target, meaning each man died because federal agen…
After an 11-year war on American democracy, the guardrails are gone—and his final assault on the vote has already begun.