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Trump’s First Year: A Report Card

Trump’s First Year: A Report Card

There are many metrics by which U.S. President Donald Trump’s first year back in office can be measured. Some will measure it by tariffs and the economy, some by ICE and immigration, and some by civility and democracy.
26.01.2026

The Last Election

The Last Election

Donald Trump’s threat to cancel the midterm elections is not a feign. He ruminates about defying the Constitution to serve a third term; he is determined to retain absolute control.
22.01.2026

Chopping Down Laws

Chopping Down Laws

Trump rejects the obligation to execute his job faithfully, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. His loyalty is to himself, not to the words or the values underlying the U.S. Constitution.
16.01.2026

An Assault on the Republic

An Assault on the Republic

In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law.
15.01.2026

Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall

The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.
30.12.2025

Peace President? Yeah, Right.

Peace President? Yeah, Right.

On December 17, surrounded by festive holiday decorations, US president Donald Trump delivered an upbeat — one might even say manic — address to the nation, preempting — and enraging fans of — network TV shows such as Survivor, The Floor, and Christmas in Nashville.
29.12.2025

Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech

Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech

Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, historical and cultural opinions of a guest on Carlson’s podcast.
18.12.2025

The Richest Men in the World Are Media Moguls

The Richest Men in the World Are Media Moguls

Alan MacLeod on the capture of media systems by the planet’s mega-rich and the existential threat that poses to an open society and the free flow of information.
05.12.2025

Pardon Me?

The festival of pardons that now features prominently in America’s political life offers a measure of how the republic, in its late-imperial phase, is crumbing.
03.12.2025

Honor Veterans by Ending Wars

Honor Veterans by Ending Wars

One of my family’s favorite regular getaways is Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri.
11.11.2025

What You Won’t Read About Ukraine in Your Newspaper

What You Won’t Read About Ukraine in Your Newspaper

There is much of significance happening in Ukraine right now that is being reported either lightly or not at all by the mainstream Western media in an apparent attempt to harmonize their reporting with Kiev’s narrative in order to keep hope high and economic and military support flowing.
10.11.2025

Norwegian Peace Council Rejects Peace Prize Winner

Norwegian Peace Council Rejects Peace Prize Winner

Norway’s largest peace organization, the Norwegian Peace Council, has announced that it would forego its traditional torchlight procession for the Nobel Peace Prize winner this year after widespread dissatisfaction with the Nobel Committee’s selection of Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado as this year’s laureate.
30.10.2025

Dealing Arms or Healing Minds?

Dealing Arms or Healing Minds?

As poorer nations spend about 6.5 percent of export revenues servicing external debt, while world military and police spending skyrockets, it’s unlikely most countries will have the political will to shift priorities from social destruction to social care.
27.10.2025

Trump’s Military Occupation of America

Trump’s Military Occupation of America

Nick Turse covers the U.S. president’s push in the direction of a genuine police state as he deploys armed forces in U.S. cities and proclaims he is waging a “war from within.”
20.10.2025

US Supreme Court May Grant Trump Unbridled Authority

US Supreme Court May Grant Trump Unbridled Authority

Marjorie Cohn previews some of the cases the U.S. high court will use to establish the limits of executive power.
17.10.2025

Trump’s War on America

Trump’s War on America

The latest Presidential memo, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” is to be a preemptive war against those individuals and institutions which threaten Trump’s absolute grip on power.
04.10.2025

Israel is the main source of instability in the Middle East

Israel is the main source of instability in the Middle East

The West is finally starting to catch on, as evidenced by Israeli officials' increasing isolation at the UN last week
30.09.2025

Free Speech and Its Discontents

Free Speech and Its Discontents

A government that can silence the speech you hate today can silence the speech you love tomorrow
26.09.2025

We Are All Antifa Now

We Are All Antifa Now

The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists.
25.09.2025

Who Benefits from Kirk Murder?

Who Benefits from Kirk Murder?

As of now, we have only our questions about the who and the why of the murder of Charlie Kirk. But questions, the right ones, have a power all their own.
22.09.2025

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