Perhaps one of the most important measures is getting significant voter turnout that delivers large winning margins make efforts to manipulate results more difficult.
The Colbert incident highlights the growing restrictions on editorial independence during the second Trump administration—either imposed by government threat or corporate fear.
Many importers have already paid out billions in tariffs since Trump started imposing them. Whether they get their money back is just one open question.
Current high school students shared incidents of white teachers using racial epithets, including the n-word, and one saying, “You’re acting like a park ape.”
The fear driving much public commentary about the danger to midterm elections is not merely that election officials will be investigated or that evidence would be seized.
The FDA’s move risks fueling further mistrust in vaccines, aligning with a wider push from Trump's federal health officials to question long-settled science.
We now have a system where, because of the whims of the president, the Department of Justice has become utterly weaponized against his perceived enemies.
A “domestic terrorism” label that comes before the facts does not just risk being wrong in one case. It teaches the public, case by case, to treat the term as propaganda.
ICE and CBP have some, though not all, of the characteristics of a paramilitary in the second sense of the term, referring to forces as repressive political agents.
When officials reshape the facts, the damage isn’t only to the record. The damage is to the basic belief that a democratic public can know what its government has done.
It is one thing to fire ambassadors who have impeded the president’s agenda in some way; it is quite another to clear them out preemptively as Trump has done.