If you think Trump's illegal use of the military ends with L.A., you haven’t been paying attention. This is Portland 2.0—but scaled up, and aimed at the soul of American democracy.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
How ordinary Americans became numb to the encroachment of fascist authoritarianism—step by chilling step.
Once you’ve labeled your opponents as subhuman, how do you work with them? How do you compromise? You don’t.
More than a dozen U.S. officials sold stocks before Trump’s tariffs sent the market plunging. Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides.
Why the destruction of public institutions, the middle class, and government itself may not be a mistake—but the mission.
In a rare moment of sanity during this year’s legislative session, a bill to lower minimum wage failed. But the governor and Legislature succeeded in casting citizens’ ballot initiatives as ethically and legally dubious.
Trump’s attacks on former officials who criticized him sends a signal of future punishment to current Justice Department officials should they speak out against Trump or refuse to carry out illegal orders.
Instead of addressing any of their problems with substantive change at the top, the Democratic Party's clumsy, inept leadership is covering their eyes and their asses, and hoping it will all burn itself out.
Suddenly, we are living in a country in which the thieves command the prosecutors, and the law is whatever the king and his agents declare it to be.
Liberty is not an option in America. Its preservation is the deepest obligation that we all share. Make no mistake: it is threatened by a malice that is historic, bearing down and deeply malevolent.
Republicans say they’re “bringing back jobs,” but what they really want is a desperate, powerless workforce with no healthcare, no unions, and no future—just the way Wall Street likes it.
America rapidly is slipping into the authoritarian nightmare Putin dreamed of for us.
With the FBI's arrest of a Milwaukee judge, America has officially become Russia.
Vladimir Putin has draped himself in old-fashioned, medieval conceptions of Russian history to add symbolic weight to his authoritarian government.
The dismantling of American democracy isn’t a secret conspiracy. It’s a public spectacle—and it’s accelerating.
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working—and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
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