The question facing Americans, therefore, isn’t whether government needs modernization—it’s whether they’re willing to sacrifice democracy in pursuit of Musk’s version of efficiency.
Elon Musk has laser-focused his attacks on the digital hubs that can disrupt just about every life in the US. This deserves a new term: Anti-social engineering.
While Trump is cementing his control of the government and its agencies, Musk is taking over as the dictator over the personnel and finance of the United States.
Legitimate academic journals evaluate papers before publication by having other researchers in the field carefully read them over. But this process is far from perfect.
While most Americans who voted for Trump probably knew he was a convicted criminal, it’s unlikely they also thought he’d commit crimes in office that would gut the protections and programs that so many of them need.
Trump denied knowing about Project 2025. but unscrubbed PDF documents reveal that authors and contributors to Project 2025 are now drafting policies for Trump Administration departments.
Trump referred to his second presidency as the start of a “golden age” for America. Most likely, though, it’ll just be a golden pile of cash filling the money bin of the most corrupt president in American history.
The oligarchy of the old Confederacy never really went away and arguably it has just taken over the United States 164 years after they first fired on Fort Sumpter, this time with “Tech Bros” replacing plantation owners.
This America is not the America Dr. King dreamed of—and until it is, we who share the dream need to steward that dream in such a way that it brings us conflict and discomfort and injury; because his dream requires such things from the privileged.
An increase in idiotic people might be a reason for America’s descent toward fascism, but many working-class Republican voters and the millions of Democrats who stayed home are about to get the government they deserve.
The night before Trump's so-called sentencing, four members of our reprehensible radical-rightwing Supreme Court voted that he shouldn’t have to face sentencing at all for his crimes because he is above the law.
Trump and his "people" are creating exactly the sort of environment which can turn normal people into monsters who then seize control and ultimately destroy nations from within.