Trump's latest Red Scare recycles one of America's oldest political tricks: invent an internal enemy to distract voters from the policies reshaping the country.
Thom Hartmann
The real divide isn't political: it's between those willing to normalize modern fascism's cruelty and those who refuse.
An afternoon in East Berlin became the lens through which today's America suddenly makes terrifying sense.
Hundreds died in this week's heat wave. But the real killer is a political & economic system that rewards predators, turns citizens into prey, & leaves governments protecting power instead of people.
The pattern is becoming impossible to miss: the hidden report, the voter-roll purges, the gerrymanders, and Postal Service changes targeting mail ballots in Democratic states.
A conservative Italian newspaper used the blunt type of word American journalists keep avoiding, and exposed how far our press will go to normalize the abnormal.
For half a century, the evidence surfaced after the GOP winners took office. This election may be the first where the public sees it beforehand.
History leaves behind a pattern: attack the courts, discredit elections, intimidate opponents, rewrite the rules, and cling to power at any cost. The question is whether America recognizes it in time.
From Citizens United to Trump-era oligarchy, the billionaire takeover of American politics seemed unstoppable. Then Hawaii found a way to strike at the heart of the system.
White nationalism, anti-immigrant fear mongering, and open racism are reviving the politics that once tore America apart.
Imagine an America where elections cost less, voters mattered more, and public policy followed an honest path.
The Founders fought a revolution against kings; Trump is turning their anniversary into a tribute to himself
While Trump declares “total victory,” the world is watching American power, alliances, and credibility unravel in real time
Trump’s inner circle appears to be running a smash-and-grab operation on the U.S. Government.
Nixon at least understood the people had a right to know. Trump's crowd has decided that people have no rights the president needs to respect and they’ll keep believing that exactly as long as we let them.
The generations that defeated fascism in the 1770s, 1860s, and 1940s understood something simple but profound: democracy survives only if ordinary people are willing to defend it. Are we today?
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