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Trump Pardons His Honduran Strongman Buddy Convicted of Cocaine Trafficking as Hegseth Executes Venezuelans Suspected of Drug Smuggling: An Executive Watch Roundup

Trump Is Selling Favors to Hollywood for a Melania Biopic

Trump’s Pardons Cover Every Conceivable Form of Corruption

Trump and Putin Are Trying to Rescue Hungarian Strongman Orbán from Electoral Defeat

Even by a Strict Definition, Elon Musk Is a Fascist

Pete Hegseth's Illegal 'Kill Everyone' Order in the Caribbean Strikes Led to the Cold-Blooded Execution of Survivors

Trump Pardons Honduras' Strongman President Convicted of Running a Cocaine Ring from His Office

Trump Is Making Deals With Russia to Ensure That His Family and Cronies Profit Big After the Ukraine War Ends

A Persecution Complex Links the Pilgrims and Christian Nationalism: A Conversation With Tyler Huckabee

Thanksgiving, Above All, Celebrates Our Escape From a Pre-Liberal World

Congress Can Toughen Existing Laws to Expose Trump’s Pardon-for-Sale Racket

A White-Collar Criminal Pays a Duo With Connections to Trump to Successfully Obtain a Presidential Pardon

The Neo Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America

Trump Promises 'Free' Money—After Making Everything More Expensive

Trump's Immigration Crackdown Is Making Americans Poorer and Less Safe: A Video Roundup

More Americans Will Go Hungry and Homeless Without Immigrants

Trump Crony Is Robbing the Kennedy Center to Pay Other Cronies, Senate Democrats Accuse

America Will Need a Reconstruction Project After Trump: A Conversation with Shikha Dalmia and Andy Craig

Trump Deports Peaceful Immigrants Instead of Sex Traffickers

Trump Threatens to Execute Members of Congress for Reminding Soldiers that Obeying Illegal Military Commands Is Illegal

Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection

If Soldiers Become Cops, Americans Will Have Even Less Legal Redress Against Abusive Law Enforcement

Trump Is Openly Accepting Bribes from Companies and Billionaires for his Ballroom

FCC Chair Reups His Boss' Post Demanding that NBC Fire Seth Myers

Facing Down ICE in Portland as an Inflatable Dachshund

Trump's Pardon Power Abuse Reaches New Heights as He Moves from Pardoning Individuals Engaged in Election Theft to Preemptive Mass Pardons: An Executive Watch Roundup

The Swiss Bribe Trump With Gold Bars and Watches to Buy a Reprieve from His Tariffs

The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: A 10-Year Journey

Founders Would Be Horrified by Congress's Surrender of its Power of the Purse to POTUS

After Neutering America’s Big Media, Trump Goes After the BBC

Defeating Populist Authoritarians Requires Real-Time Pushback on Social Media

Trump Pardons His Election Theft Co-Conspirators

Trump Has Taken Only Months to Accomplish the Level of Authoritarian Consolidation That Took Orbán and Modi Years

Trump Takes the Bat to the World: A Video Roundup

JB Pritzker Might Become the Face of America’s Resistance by Taking on Trump’s Authoritarianism

Trump, Given His Yen for Corrupt Politicians, Is Handing Them Pardons Galore

Trump Shakes Down Company on Live TV

The Election Was a Rebuke of Trump and Not Only Because He Has Failed to Deliver Economic Relief

Trump Wants to Take the Crusades to Nigeria

Tucker Carlson Is Resurrecting Christianity's Ugly Tradition of Antisemitism

Trump’s Threats Against Big Business Keep Them Silent in Tariff Case

Trump’s Thug Diplomacy Threatens European Diplomats and their Families if They Refuse to Put American Interests Ahead of their Own Countries

Will Mamdani Govern More as a Democratic Socialist or as an Abundance Liberal?

Trump Has Instructed the Department of Justice to Look for Evidence to Support His Stolen Election Lie

Elon Musk’s AI-Generated Wikipedia-Killer is Dead on Arrival

Trump Is Refusing to Disclose the Names of All the Favor-Seeking Donors Contributing to his Ballroom

Trump’s Murderous Rampage Against Alleged Venezuelan Narco-Smugglers

Trump Is Using His Office to Enrich Himself and His Family: An Executive Watch Roundup

Trump's New Directive Could Treat All Those Who Oppose Him as Terrorists

Trump Openly Defies a Court Order by Refusing to Release SNAP Contingency Funds During the Government Shutdown

Trump Is Just Murdering Random People in the Caribbean While Showing Utter Contempt for Basic Congressional Oversight

The Trump Administration Circulates Fradulent Videos About Criminal Aliens and Antifa Terrorists to Justify His Crackdown on Blue Cities

Trump Uses Foreign Investments Extracted From Countries by Threatening Tariffs as a Slush Fund to Direct Investment Toward His Pet Projects

Want to End the Gerrymandering Wars? Embrace Proportional Representation

Borrowing a Page From Socialist China, Trump Forces New Nuclear Reactors to Hand Over Part of Their Profits to Uncle Sam in Exchange for Government Subsidies

Trumps Hands Over $20 Billion of U.S. Taxpayers' Money to Bail Out Argentina’s Milei and His Business Buddies

The Neo-Right Rejects Liberalism Because It Wants to Rule by Brute Force Not Consensus: A LibCon2025 Panel Discussion

Liberalism Is a Bold Force That Ends Corrupt, Oppressive, and Arbitrary Hierarchies

What Kind of Country Is Trump Turning America Into? A Video Roundup

Crooked Trump Hands a Defense Contract to a Company That Hires Don Jr. as an Advisor for Millions of Dollars

Ignoring Congress, Trump Illegally and Unconstitutionally Diverts R&D Defense Funds to Pay Troops During the Shutdown

Trump Hits Up a Rich Crony to Illegally Pay Troops During the Shutdown and Diss Congress

The Failure of Macron’s Technocratic Governing Style Is Boosting the Nativist Right in France

A Crypto Conman Whose Platform Helped Hamas Launder Money Receives a Full Pardon After Investing in Trump's Crypto Fund

Trump Wants His DOJ Buddies to Help Him Loot Taxpayers

No, There Never Was a Biden Censorship-Industrial Complex

Trump Commutes the Sentence of Disgraced Congressman Santos Because He Is '100% for Trump'

Trump Plots to Loot the U.S. Treasury for $230 Million for Trying to Hold Him Accountable to the Rule of Law

Trump Demolishes the East Wing of the People's House Without Any Public Review to Build a Ballroom

The Founders Never Meant to Give the President Unchecked Removal Powers: A Conversation with Noah Rosenblum

Trump’s Anti-Woke Regime Comes for the Holocaust Museum

Introducing: The Reconstruction Agenda

Trump Issues a Sweeping Directive That Could Classify Many Non-MAGA Advocacy Groups as Terrorist Outfits: An Executive Watch Roundup

MAGA’s Epstein Fixation Isn’t About Justice, It’s About Revenge

Trump Considers a Blatantly Illegal Plan to Use the IRS to Probe and Harass Donors Who Oppose MAGA

Trump Is Asking Top DOJ Officials to Use the Agency to Prosecute Those Charged With Investigating His Criminal Actions

Hegseth Restricts Defense Personnel From Interacting With Congress to Make Oversight Harder

Trump's Compact Wants Universities to Give Up Their 'God'-Given Rights

Has Liberalism’s Very Success in Delivering Human Flourishing Doomed It? Steven Pinker and Derek Thompson Discuss at LibCon2025

The Administration’s Foolish War on Basic Science

Trump's Quest for Unchecked Power: A Video Roundup

Trump Uses Shutdown Government Sites to Push Partisan Message

Trump’s Great Leap Backward Toward One-Man Rule

Trump Threatens to Jail Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor for Opposing His ICE Immigration Raids

Is a Liberal Realignment Emerging from the Rubble of MAGA Authoritarianism?

The People Trump Honors Reveals His Dark Vision for the Country

Can Each Side's Faith Break the Cycle of Mutually Assured Destruction for Israelis and Palestinians?

Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities

China's Authoritarian Regime Is Censoring American Universities: A Conversation with Sarah McLaughlin

Trump Hit Brazil With Punitive Tariffs for Prosecuting His Ally But Promised Argentina a $20 Billion Taxpayer Bailout to Help His Other Pal Win Election: An Executive Watch Roundup

On America's 250th Anniversary, Treasury Plans an Illegal Trump Coin to Glorify Him Like a King

Trump Tries to Turn Watchdogs Into Lapdogs by Defunding Inspectors General

Political Triumphalism Is Contrary to the Spirit of Yom Kippur

In Exchange for a Luxury Jet from Qatar, Trump Issues an Executive Order Committing the U.S. to Defending it from External Aggression Like NATO Allies

Trump Proposes an Unconstitutional 'Compact' to Universities to Put Them Directly Under the Federal Thumb

Hegseth’s Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump

Speaking to a Room Full of Generals, Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump Declares War on Major American Cities Run by Democrats

Democrats Should Do the Honorable Thing and Refuse to Fund an Authoritarian Administration

Trump Is Even Targeting the Private Employment of Officials Who Investigated His Criminal Acts by Threatening to Cancel the Contracts of Companies Like Microsoft that Hire Them

Google Delivers $22 Million to Trump to Settle His Frivolous Lawsuit—Just Like Other Major Companies Afraid that He’ll Otherwise Use His Office to Retaliate Against Them

From Conservative Civic Nationalism to MAGA White Nationalism: A Conversation with Jason Wilson

Restoring Sanity and Humanity to the Immigration System Requires Putting Enforcement Under Article I Congressional Courts

The Most Corrupt U.S. Presidency Ever: A Video Roundup

Trump’s Not-So-Subtle Chips for Crypto Quid Pro Quo

Trump Issues 'Anti-Terror' Directive That Would Sic the Police State on Everyone Except the MAGA Right

Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan Took a $50k Bribe—Trump’s FBI Then Stepped In to Shut Down the Investigation

What Would the Consequences of the Liberal International Order Collapsing Into Sovereigntist Nation States Be? A LibCon2025 Panel Discussion

Trump’s DOJ Demands Its Attorneys Come Up With Charges It Can File Against Soros, a Longtime Bogeyman of the Right

Trump's Gold Card Plan Would Illegally Sell Green Cards While Scrapping Every Other Congressionally Created Pathway to Permanent Residency

New Trump Investment Funds Exemplify the Art of the Steal

After Imposing Harsh Tariffs on Brazil for Trying His Populist Ally for an Insurrection, Trump Is Pledging $20 Billion of American Taxpayer Money to Bailout His Libertarian Pal in Argentina

Trump Fires U.S. Attorney for Refusing to Prosecute Trump's Enemies and Replaces Him With a Former Personal Lawyer With No Experience or Scruples

Why Is the American Experiment in Trouble? Simple: A Demagogue Has Ignited the ‘Dark Passions’ of the People

The UnPopulist Turns Four!

Trump's 100K Fee Hike for High-Tech H-1B Visas Is Illegal, Unconstitutional, and Corrupt

Trump’s Censorship Binge After Kirk’s Killing Is Part of an All-Out Effort to Crush the Opposition

The Trump Justice Department Shuts Down the FBI Case Investigating Border Czar Tom Homan for Accepting Cash Bribes

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Threatens to Revoke the Press Passes of Pentagon Reporters Who Don’t Obtain Approval Before Publishing Any Story About the Agency

Hegseth Purges Service Members and Carr Jawbones ABC to Get Jimmy Kimmel Canceled for Criticizing Charlie Kirk: An Executive Watch Roundup

Trump Fires U.S. Attorney for Adhering to Proper Evidentiary Standards and Refusing to Persecute the President's Political Enemies

In Trump’s America, Immigrant Ice Cream Vendors Get Arrested and Child Predators Get a Head Start

The Trump Department of Defense Is Firing Non-Loyalists and Recruiting Loyalists to Create a MAGAfied Military

Brazil Rejects Trump’s Bullying and Convicts His Ally Bolsonaro for Insurrection

There Is No Legal Category of a Domestic Terrorist Group But That Is Not Stopping Trump From Putting Imaginary Groups In It

FCC Chief Carr Engages in State Cancellation by Getting Jimmy Kimmel Fired on the Threat of Revoking ABC's License

DOJ Disappears a Study From its Site Showing that Right-Wing Violence Is Five Times Greater than Left-Wing Violence

Other Presidents Tried to Heal America After Political Violence—Trump Is Dividing It

South Korea Accuses the Trump Administration of Abusing the Human Rights of its Workers Detained by ICE

Attorney General Pam Bondi Threatens to Go After Critics by Deploying Non-Existent 'Hate Speech' Laws

Exploiting Charlie Kirk’s Killing, the Trump Administration Announces It Is Plotting a Broad Crackdown on Organizations Who Criticize the Right Or Fund Those Who Do

Trump's Spectacularly Corrupt Crypto-for-Chips Deal With the UAE Will Compromise National Security But Enrich Him

Is the Lack of ‘Friction’ in Our Virtual World Leading to Liberalism’s Decline?

Trump's Federal Housing Finance Chief Abused His Office to Dig Up False Accusations Against Fed Governor to Fire Her

Trump’s State Terrorism Against Venezuela Will Endanger American Lives

Pete Hegseth Polices the U.S. Military to Ensure Political Loyalty to … Charlie Kirk!

Trump Is Already Exploiting the Heinous Killing of Charlie Kirk

Trump's FEMA Retaliates Against Its Own

Trump Uses Charlie Kirk's Assassination to Threaten a Crackdown on His Political Opponents

India's Modi Is Even More Barbaric Toward 'Migrants' Than Trump

Surprise! The 'Bias Monitor' Who Trump Imposed on CBS Turns Out to Be a Trump Crony

Trump Is Using Fake Emergencies to Grab More Power than King George III

The Anti-War President Blows Up 11 People in the Caribbean: An Executive Watch Roundup

Trump’s Leaked Plan to Deploy the Texas National Guard Against Illinois Will Tear Apart the Union

A Trump Appointee Slaps Down Pam Bondi’s Malign Lawsuit Against Maryland Judges

The Anti-War President Blows Up 11 People in the Caribbean in Violation of International Law and Without Congressional Authorization

Can Liberal Democracies Control Immigration Without a Massive Loss of Freedom? Bill Kristol Moderates a Debate Between Chandran Kukathas and David Goodhart at LibCon2025

Trump's Executive Order to Change Voting Rules Is Unconstitutional and Meant to Discredit His Potential Midterm Loss

How Should We Respond to the MAGA Right's Embrace of the Cult of Cruelty? A Conversation With Radley Balko and Charlie Sykes

Trump Sets Fire to the First Amendment with Flag Burning Order

Liberals Cannot Stop Authoritarianism by Compromising With It

What Is the Glue Binding the New Right's Disparate Factions? Zack Beauchamp's Conversation with Laura Field

The Trump Administration Wants to Follow Communist China and Give Government Part Ownership of Defense Companies

The DOJ Is So Badly Decimated It's as if Trump Dropped an 'Atomic Bomb' On It

Did the FBI Alert a Pro-Trump Media Organ of its Raid on John Bolton to Send a Message to Trump's Critics?

Trump's Edict Banning Flag Burning Is Performative and Illegal But that Doesn't Mean it Can't be Used to Harass Americans

LibCon2025 Receives Rave Reviews

Trump Is Planning an Illegal Military Occupation of Chicago, the Illinois Governor Pritzker Warns

Trump Borrows a Page From China's Communist Rulers and Misuses Congressional Appropriations to Give Uncle Sam a Stake in Intel at Below Market Rate

Why Courts Can't Save America From This President

Federal Housing Chief Abuses His Office to Dig Up Dirt on a Federal Reserve Governor Refusing to Obey Trump to Justify Firing Her

'Appeasing an Aggressor Never Leads to Peace': Vladimir Kara-Murza

Liberals Need Moral Clarity, Not Moral Purity, in Their Struggle Against Authoritarianism

We Are Well on the Road to an Immigration Police State

Trump Tells Goldman Sachs to Fire its Economist for Showing that Trump's Tariffs Were Exacerbating Inflation

Trump Uses the Assault in Washington, D.C. of a Former DOGE Staffer as a Pretext to Militarily Commandeer the Nation’s Capital

Trump's Unconstitutional Demand to Chipmakers to Fork Over Profits to Uncle Sam in Exchange for an Export License

Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism Wants to Abandon Liberal Democracy so that the Jewish People Maintain Hegemony in Israel

Trump's Commerce Department Threatens to Seize Harvard’s Patents that it Claims the University Derived from Federally Funded Research

The Right's Project to Rewrite History Along MAGA Lines: A Video Roundup

Trump Wants to Tilt Congress His Way with Unconstitutional Do-Over of the Census

Trump Threatens to Go On a Citizenship-Revoking Spree

JD Vance Has Army Corps of Engineers Change the Flow of a River to Ensure He Has Ideal Kayaking Conditions for his 41st Birthday Celebration

ISMA's LibCon2025 Featuring the World's Leading Liberal Thinkers Is Eight Days Away

The Confirmation of Trump Loyalist Emil Bove to a Powerful Court Shows that Senate Republicans Don’t Care if Anarchy Replaces the Rule of Law in America

Never Again Should a Sole Superpower Anchor the Liberal International Order

Trump's Allies in Congress Push For an Investigation Into Former Special Counsel Jack Smith to Help the President Carry Out His Retribution Agenda

Trump Fires the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for Publishing a Report He Found Insufficiently Optimistic About the Impact of His Tariff Policies

Trump Publicly Fantasizes About Imprisoning Obama: An Executive Watch Roundup

Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Recently Reengineered to Be More ‘Anti-Woke,’ Is Now Funded by American Tax Dollars

Trump Is Extorting Universities in the Name of Intellectual Diversity: A Conversation with Michael S. Roth

The 'Alligator Alcatraz' Immigrant Detainment Facility Set Up by Trump and DeSantis Is Operating Like a Black Site Free From Any Oversight or Accountability

Authoritarian Rulers Are Co-Opting the Sphere of the Sacred to Consolidate Control

Trump's DOJ Went From Targeting Universities With Ideologically-Driven Investigations to Now Also Targeting Professors Who Support Their Universities' Diversity Efforts

Immigrants Condemned by Trump to a 'Hell on Earth' Prison in El Salvador Describe the Torture Inflicted On Them There

Are Advanced Capitalist Liberal Democracies Victims of Their Own Success? A Conversation with Brink Lindsey

The Trump Administration Has Directed FEMA to Use Half a Billion Dollars to Build Concentration Camps for Immigrants Across the United States

'Abundance’ Offers a Sounder Way Forward for the Left than Degrowth or Redistributive Progressivism

The Trump Administration Forces Columbia University to Pay it $200 Million and Accept its Ideological Oversight in Order to Resume Conducting Scientific Research

ICE's Secrecy Is a Giant Leap Forward for a Police State in America: An Executive Watch Roundup

A Manhattan Institute Manifesto Would Give this President Sweeping Power to Force University Compliance with Right-Wing Demands

Only Three Weeks Left to Register for LibCon2025

Trump's Illicit Threat to Jail Obama Is Meant to Rally His Supporters Around Bogus Prosecutions of Political Opponents

Should the Heterodox Academy Prioritize Fighting Trump's Authoritarian Assaults Over Wokeness on Campuses? A Conversation with Cathy Young

Trump Sues The Wall Street Journal for Daring to Report on His Lewd Birthday Card to Jeffrey Epstein

The Conservative Supreme Court’s Decision Allowing Deportations to Third Countries Should Shock the Conscience of Americans

CBS Cancels Stephen Colbert Ahead of its Parent Company's Takeover by a Trump-Friendly Owner

America Needs a Bold Constitutional Reconstruction Agenda to Tame Presidential Powers

Trump Is Preparing to Illegally Fire the Fed Chair For Refusing to Mess with Interest Rates to Goose Economic Growth

Trump Abruptly Fires Former FBI Director James Comey's Daughter, a Federal Prosecutor Who Worked on Epstein-Related Cases

Trump Digs Into Schiff's Financial Records and Threatens to Prosecute the Senator on Dubious Grounds as Payback for Impeachment

Secret Police and Secret Courts: The Trump Administration Withholds Names of Immigration Prosecutors, Taking a Great Leap Forward Toward a Police State

The Administration's War on Civil Service Protections Is Continuing Unabated in a Bid to Stack Executive Agencies with Trump Puppets

Big Law Is Finally Getting its Act Together and Fighting Trump's Attacks

Trump Threatens to Denaturalize Longtime Critic Rosie O'Donnell, a Native-Born U.S. Citizen

ISMA Hosts its Second Annual 'Liberalism for the 21st Century' Conference

The Administration’s Contempt for the Rule of Law Has Roots in the Pre-Civil Rights Era

MAGA Pundits Are Triggered That Superman Is an Immigrant

Whistleblower Details How Trump's DOJ Tried to Fraudulently Frame Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Gang Member

Trump Imposes Tariffs on Brazil to Prevent His Strongman Buddy Bolsonaro from Being Prosecuted for an Attempted Coup

Trump's Retribution Agenda Gets Underway With Criminal Referrals Against Officials Who Investigated Him

The Truth Is, There Are No Legal Limits on an American President’s Warmaking

Trump Is Gutting Every Source of America's Greatness

Paramount Shamelessly Signs Up to Toe the Administration's Line, Capitulating to Trump's Corrupt Shakedown

Ben Franklin Declared His Independence from his Inheritance of Nasty Superstitions and Became an Enlightenment Man

Trump Is Failing to Enforce Congress's Ban on TikTok, Claiming King-Like Powers to Suspend Laws He Does Not Like

Crypto Is the Perfect Currency for Trump's Corrupt Pay-to-Play Presidency

Trump Signs Off on Military Troops Acting as the Judge, Jury, and Deportation Squad to Eject Immigrants

Trump Threatens to Arrest, Denaturalize, and Deport New York's Democratic Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani

The Department of Education Illegally Withholds Congressionally Allocated Funds to Humor Trump—Again

Can an Israeli State Poised for Constant Violence Deliver True Peace to Jews?

Trump Turns Emergency Power Into Routine Reason to Halt Immigration

The Supreme Court's Ban on Universal Injunctions Will Kneecap Americans Fighting for their Rights

Astonishingly, the DOJ is Suing the Entire Maryland Federal Bench After its Judges Stopped Trump's Lawless Deportations: An Executive Watch Roundup

Trump Forces the President of State-Funded UVA to Resign for Embracing Campus Policies that Rankle MAGA

Free Trade Is Flourishing, Just Not in America

The Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism Hosts its Second Annual 'Liberalism for the 21st Century' Conference

Trump’s DOJ Sues the Entire Maryland Federal Bench After its Judges Stopped His Lawless Deportations

Trump's Personal Lawyer in the DOJ Now Up for Judgeship Actively Plotted to Disobey and Defy Court Orders Barring Lawless Deportations

Iran’s Islamic Regime Is a Menace to Its Own People

Trump Whitewashes Tragedy While Venerating Traitors

Trump's Iran Strike Shows the Urgent Need for Congress to Claw Back its War Powers

Trump Deliberately Keeps Congressional Democrats in the Dark Before Military Strikes on Iran

Musk Might be the First Domino to Fall in Trump’s Unwieldy MAGA Coalition

Three Postliberal Paths to Autocracy: A Video Roundup

The Tech-Monarchist Enemies of Liberalism

Abraham Lincoln Wasn't Born an Abolitionist, He Became One

NatCons' Divisive Notion of Unity

Donald Trump Once Again Violates the Law Banning TikTok for His Own Political Benefit

ICE Illegally Refuses to Allow Congressional Oversight of its Detention Centers

Trump Has Seated Uncle Sam on U.S. Steel's Board and Handed Him Veto Powers Over Private Business Decisions

Trump’s Legal Loophole Renames Bases to Celebrate Confederacy

Free Trade Has Stronger Intellectual Roots in the Left than the Right

These Catholic Intellectuals Want the State to Define What's Good For You

Trump Commandeers the National Guard to Militarize the Immigration Police State: An Executive Watch Roundup

The Judiciary Will Become Virtually Powerless in Protecting Your Rights if the Current Budget Bill Becomes Law

Trump’s Birthday Military Parade Destroys the Very Purpose of Our National Rituals

How America Created an Enormous and Abusive Surveillance State: A Conversation with Patrick Eddington

Trump Abuses FTC's Powers to Force Advertisers to Support Right-Wing Media Against Their Own Conscience

Gavin Newsom: 'Democracy Is Under Assault Before Our Eyes. This Moment We Have Feared Has Arrived.'

New Charges Against Abrego Garcia Make a Mockery of Due Process

Trump Trashes America's Bedrock Commitment to an Apolitical Military and Demands Only MAGA-Supporting Troops at His Speech

Trump Uses the Vast Authority Granted to Him by the Supreme Court to Once Again Issue a Travel Ban and Abuse His Immigration Powers

Don't Be Fooled, Courts Can't Really Stop Trump From Assaulting Law Firms

The Administration Unconstitutionally Tries to Usurp Congress' Power of Purse by Illegally Freezing Mandated Federal Spending

Donald Trump Commandeers the California National Guard to Suppress Protests Against ICE Deportation Raids

Trump Prevents Congressmen from Performing Their Oversight Function by Denying them Access to ICE Detention Centers

An Effective Resistance Strategy Against Trump’s Constitutional Assaults Needs to Mobilize Both Courts and Public Opinion

South Africans of All Hues Are Laughing at Trump’s Ridiculous Claims of ‘White Genocide’

In a Classic Authoritarian Move, Trump Threatens to Crush Musk if the Tech Tycoon Funds Democrats Now

Trump Feeds Grift, Graft, and Greed from the White House: A Video Roundup

Trump Jr. Uses His Dad to Milk Oligarchs

Trump Threatens to Scrap Columbia's Accreditation After the University Capitulated to His Previous Demands to Fight Campus Antisemitism

Trump Issues Executive Order to Invalidate Biden's Pardons and Other Policies Based on Conspiracy Theories Even as He Sells Pardons to Corrupt Politicians and Tycoons

Trump’s Corrupt Pardons for Corruption

William F. Buckley Cemented the Conservative Movement’s Preoccupation with the Liberal Enemy

Tyranny Has Invaded America Through the Immigration Enforcement Regime

What Comes After Our Shattered Constitutional Order?

To Fight Authoritarianism, Libertarians Need to be More Pro-Liberty, Not Just Anti-State

Will Appeals Courts Affirm that Trump Is Abusing His Emergency Power by Imposing Sweeping Tariffs? A Conversation with Ilya Somin

Trump Threatens Media Network for Covering His Solicitation of a $400 Million Luxury Jet Bribe: An Executive Watch Roundup

The Slanted Investigation by a Right-Leaning Publication That Helped the Administration Target Harvard University

Musk Quits DOGE After Wrecking Our Governing System

The Administration Suspends Visa Interviews of Foreign Students Pending Vetting Rules of Their Social Media Posts to Ensure Ideological Conformity

Trump Sells a Pardon to a Rich Crook Who Paid a Million Bucks to Have Dinner With Him

The Supreme Court Should Resist Handing Sweeping Removal Powers to this President in the Name of Constitutional Purity

Trump's Pardon Czar Hands a 'MAGA Pardon' to a Corrupt Sheriff Convicted for Bribery

Let's Rededicate Ourselves to a Nonpartisan Military Free of Domestic Entanglements

Postliberals and NatCons See an Opening in Trumpism to Impose Their Respective Agendas: A Conversation with Jerome Copulsky

Trump’s Library of Congress Takeover Means He Could Spy on Lawmakers' Research

Trump Aggressively Grabs Power from the Other Branches: A Video Roundup

There Is No Piecing Back Our Badly Shattered Constitutional Order

The FTC Obliges Musk and Targets a Democrat-Aligned Group Flagging Racist Content on X

U.K.’s Labour Government and Tories Are Both Abandoning Liberal Pluralism in the Wake of Nigel Farage’s Victory

Trump's Black and White Refugee Double Standard

Postliberal Christian Academics Want a Religious Coup to Replace America's Constitutional Liberalism

Trump Threatens ABC With an FCC Investigation for Reporting that He Solicited the Qatari Palace in the Sky as a Plane Bribe

Trump Uses the Presidency to Enrich Himself Through a Corrupt Crypto Scam: An Executive Watch Roundup

Trump’s Chief Ghoul Stephen Miller Wants to Disappear You

DOGE’s Cruelty—and Lies—Will Taint the Cause of Downsizing Government

Trump’s Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher

Trump's Authoritarianism Comes for the Free Market and Imposes Price Controls on Pharmaceuticals

Trump Tries to Take Over the Library of Congress Without Congressional Authorization and Put His Lackeys In Charge

Trump Plans to Ditch the American-Made Air Force One and Accept a $400 Million Flying Palace from the Emir of Qatar as a Bribe

The Postliberal Delusion that Trump will Restore Gods Allegedly Destroyed by the Open Society

Stephen Miller Peddles Dangerous Falsehoods that the Executive Has Sweeping Authority to Suspend Habeas Corpus and Defy Courts on Immigration

ICE Agents Arrest Newark Mayor for Protesting Deportations Outside the Detention Prison in an Attempt to Intimidate Local Officials

Trump’s Executive Order Threatens Public Broadcasting for its Alleged Woke Bias

Trump's War on the Media’s Independence: A Video Roundup

Trump's FCC Uses its Regulatory Authority to Shut Down Negative Coverage

A Key Tool for Stopping Government Tyranny Might become a Casualty of Next Week’s Birthright Citizenship Case

Why DOGE Should Scare Even Advocates of Small Government: A Conversation with Julian Sanchez and Noah Kunin

Addressing Cultural Fears Could Renew Public Support for Immigration

Trump’s Son Opens a Private Club for Businesses to Pay for Access to his Dad

Only Moral Leadership Can Stop America From Giving in to Authoritarianism: A Conversation with David French

Regulatory Tyranny Makes Both the Private and Public Sector Inefficient

Businesses Pouring Billions Into Trump's Memecoin Venture to Buy Influence Is the Very Definition of Graft

Trump Tells Harvard to Recalibrate Along MAGA Lines or Lose Federal Funding: An Executive Watch Roundup

A Liberal Victory Does Not Mean Populist Furies Are Dead in Canada

The DOJ's Arrest of a Judge Is an Effort to Outmuscle the Judiciary

Dictator on Day 100

Democrats are Losing Because they Give Not a Fig About Governing, Only Virtue Signaling

Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign Comes After American Children

Can Trump Really Deport 10 Million People? A Conversation with Dara Lind

Trump Guts the Hatch Act's Prohibition on Government Employees Campaigning for MAGA on Official Time

Trump FBI Arrests a State Judge for Allegedly Defying the Immigration Police State

Trump Attempted to Terrify Foreign Students Into Self-Deporting

Trump’s Assault on Universities in America and Abroad: A Video Roundup

Trump Is Selling His Crypto Meme Coin to Anonymous Donors in a Pay-to-Play Scheme

In a Classic Move From the Authoritarian Playbook, Trump Orders a Politically Motivated Investigation of a Democratic Fundraising Platform

Will Trump Convince the Supreme Court to Embrace an Expansive Unitary Executive Theory and Grab More Power?

Trump Wants to Send Undocumented Aliens to the Salvadoran Gulag Without a Hearing

Trump Goes After Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status Because the Univeristy Spurned His Ideological Demands

Without Draconian Action Against American Citizens, Trump’s Crackdown on the Undocumented Cannot Succeed

Trump's Unlawful Campaign to Revoke Visas of International Students for Minor Offenses Is Designed to Spread Fear

Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Even Let You Drink Your Way Through these Tough Times

Trump Targets His Own Aides for Speaking Out Against His Stolen Election Lie: An Executive Watch Roundup

Trump’s FCC Head Threatens to Revoke Comcast's Licenses Over Unfavorable Coverage of Abrego Garcia's Deportation to Salvadoran Gulag

Trump Administration's Campaign of Retribution Threatens Scientific Journals Not on Board with MAGA Science

Trumponomics Could Bring Far Worse than Inflation

Treasury Official Ask IRS to Rethink Audits of the Pillow Guy and Trump's Other 'High Profile Friends'

Trump Alters His 'Deal' with BigLaw and Wants to Extort Legal Services for Himself and His Allies

Trump Threatens to Nix Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status if it Fails to Embrace His Ideological Agenda

Trump is Crushing the Independence of the White House Press Corps

How DOGE Thugs Enlisted the Police to Takeover a Private Building Belonging to an Independent Agency

Trump's Counterterrorism Czar Wants to Prosecute Critics of Mass Deportation for 'Aiding and Abetting' Terrorists

Trump’s Policy of Shipping Innocents to the Salvadoran Gulag Shows Utter Contempt for Not Just the Constitution but Law Itself

Black Codes to Black Sites: Trump’s Deportations Are Modern Convict Leasing

Trump Threatens to Send U.S. Citizens to El Salvador's Gulag

Trump Wants the FCC to Revoke CBS' Broadcast License for Running Stories Critical of Him

The Trump Administration Is Openly Defying the Supreme Court's Order to Bring Home Abrego Garcia After Erroneously Deporting Him to a Salvadoran Gulag

Trump’s Personalist Style in Politics: A Video Roundup

Crooked Crypto Exchange Invests in a Trump Venture In Exchange for Having a Federal Money-Laundering Investigation Dropped

Trump Orders Harvard to Implement Viewpoint Diversity or Else!

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Wrongful Deportation and Imprisonment Reveals the Horrors of Trump's Authoritarianism

Trump Abuses 'Emergency' Power to Set Tariffs by Autocratic Whim

The Free Press' Passage Into the Dark Side

Trump's Executive Orders Target His Own Former Aides for Challenging His 'Stolen Election' Conspiracy Theories

This Administration's Mercurial Trade Policy Injures Our Economy and Our Democracy

Trump's Crypto Crony Corruption

The World Shouldn't Ignore that Hamas Terrorizes Innocents in Gaza, Too

How to Undo Trump’s Growing Dictatorship and the Damage it Is Inflicting

Trump Uses the White House to Stage a Tesla Ad and Worse: An Executive Watch Roundup

Will the Deep Fracture Between Tech Oligarchs and White Working Class Nativists Split MAGA?

Trump Wants to Deny Legal Representation to Opponents He Targets: A Conversation with Walter Olson

Trump Targets the Legal Profession, Not Just Big Law Firms

Nice Try, President Trump, But There Is No Third-Term Presidential Loophole

Trump Is Stacking the Press Pool With Loyalists and Crushing the Independence of the White House Press Corps

Oligarchs in Bed with Autocrats Would Kill the Prospects for Liberalism in Space

The White House Fires a Federal Prosecutor Who Criticized Trump and Was Prosecuting a Trump-Supporting, Tax-Defrauding CEO

Trump's Cruel and Lawless Deportations: Our Video Roundup

Trump Is Nabbing and Deporting Innocent Immigrants

Trump Is Going After the Independence of the Entire Legal Profession, Not Just Big Law

Trump’s War on Higher Education Goes Global

Trump Is Going After the Independence of the Entire Legal Profession, Not Just Big Law

Trump's Unconstitutional Executive Order Tries to Usurp State Control Over Election Law

Trump Targets Another Law Firm Offering Services to His Opponents, Eviscerating the Principle of Effective Representation for All

Trump Is Detaining Foreign Students for Wrong Speech

Trump’s Indiscriminate Destruction of State Capacity Will Lead to a Dysfunctional, Not Cheaper, Government

Trump Asserts Illegal Wartime Powers to Deport Immigrants in Defiance of the Court

Trump Defies Congress and Eliminates a Website Requiring him to Show that he Was Spending Appropriations as Intended

Trump Toady Briefly Canceled a Program Handing Social Security Numbers to Newborns in a Hospital to Spite Maine's Governor

A Revival of True Christianity Would Also Revive American Liberal Democracy: A Conversation with Jonathan Rauch

A Trump Memo Threatens Any Lawyer Who Dares to Sue His Illegal Executive Actions

Trump's Relentless Abuses of Power

Trump Threatens to Send U.S. Citizens who Protest to the Salvadoran Gulag

Trump Announces Shakedown Deal with Big Law Firm

Trump Is Nuking Free Speech in the Name of Fighting Wokeness on Campuses

Trump’s Project to Spread MAGA Propaganda in History Classes

A Supreme Court Truly Devoted to Originalism Would Be Nice in the Face of Trump’s Lawlessness

The Trump Administration Forcibly Enters and Seizes Congressionally Funded Non-Profit

The Trump Administration Defies Judge Demanding Basic Details about Those it Is Deporting

We Need to Restore a Healthy Protestantism to Save American Liberalism

Trump Asserts Illegal Wartime Powers to Deport Immigrants in Defiance of the Court

Trump Announces that Negative Coverage of Him Is Illegal and Threatens Networks

The Apostles of Strongman Politics Will Usher In a New Tyranny

Justice Department Wants to Barge Into Homes of Alleged Immigrant Gang Members Without a Warrant

A Chinese Scammer Is Seeking a Pardon from Trump in Exchange of Investing in His Crypto Fund

Trump Is Going After Big Law to Make it Difficult for His Political Targets to Get Effective Representation

Trump's Attacks on the Human Rights of Palestinians Are Next Level

Trump Uses the White House to Make a Sales Pitch for Tesla in Exchange for Campaign Cash from Musk

Musk’s Toxic Brand of Politics Has Hit a Wall in the U.K.

Trump Revokes the Green Card of a Pro-Palestinian Campus Activist Without Any Criminal Charges

Trump Is Turning America Into its Opposite and a Threat to the World

MAGA to Accused Rapist Andrew Tate: Welcome Back

Trump Goes After a Law Firm Just Because it Has Represented Democrats

Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign Is Draconian and Lawless

Trump’s Gaza Dream Is Palestinians’ Nightmare

Executive Watch

Musk Usurps the Power of the Purse from Congress but Republicans Can Apply for Relief from Funding Cuts

Trump Charges Business Leaders $5 Million to Dine with him and Potentially Pockets the Funds

Ukraine Is Being Punished Because Zelenskyy Did Not Buy Trump's Superpowers

Trump Uses Sovereign Crypto Fund as a Payout to Political Insiders

How Silicon Valley’s Corrupted Libertarianism Is Dismantling American Democracy

Cryptocurrency Scammer Pours Millions in Trump's Venture and Gets Charges Dropped

The UnPopulist Launches Executive Watch

Vance’s Free Speech Hypocrisy

Trump Targets the Law Firm Representing the Special Counsel Who Investigated Him

Musk Lands a Lucrative FAA Contract While Saying He's Stopping Government Abuse

Germany's Extremism Problem Requires an Economic Cure

Rewarding Putin's Aggression Would Consign the World to Chronic Warfare

How the Right Uses Social Media to Create a Powerful Propaganda Machine: A Conversation with Renée DiResta

Trump Tells DHS to Spend Millions on Political Ads Thanking Him for Closing the Border

Trump Punishes AP for Exercising Its Free Speech Rights

The Trump DOJ Falsely Brands Democratic Lawmakers' Speech as Threatening and Targets them for Investigation

Your Comprehensive Guide to the Far Right: Part II

Trump Attempts an Illegal and Unconstitutional Takeover of the U.S. Postal Service

Trump's America Is in a Free Fall—Not a Slippery Slope—to Tyranny

Musk Uses His Political Power to Force Companies to Advertise on X

Europe Needs to Rise Swiftly to Counter Trump's Predatory Imperialism

Trump Is Not Taking the State Out of Public Schools, He Is Putting Christianity In

Trump DOJ Seeks to Claw Back EPA Funding by Launching a Bogus Criminal Investigation

Trump Guts the Independence of Key Federal Agencies, Paving the Way to their Politicization

Trump's Anti-DEI Inquisition Targets Georgetown, a Private University

King Trump to America: I Am Beyond the Law

Trump Abuses His Foreign Policy Powers as a Favor to 'Manosphere' Influencer Andrew Tate

Trump’s Mass Firing of Inspectors General Bulldozed the Way for Elon Musk’s Unaccountable Shadow Government

Donald Trump’s Executive Order Scrapping Birthright Citizenship Will Affect the Native Born Too: A Roundup

Trump’s Executive Order Makes Anti-Trans Bigotry Official State Policy

Rap SLAPPs: How Drake and Trump Use Lawsuits to Deter Criticism

The Trump Administration Illegally Seizes New York City Funds

Trump’s Pardon-for-Deportation Crackdown Deal with NYC Mayor Eric Adams

America Desperately Needs a National Anti-SLAPP Law to Stop Censorship by Bad Political Actors

Surprise! The Most Ethically Challenged Administration Guts the Government Ethics Agency

Trump Gives the Green Light to American Companies to Engage in Corruption Abroad

Bishop Budde Wasn’t Breaching Her Clerical Charge by Speaking Truth to Trump from the Pulpit

Bukele Butters Up Trump with Cheap Offshore Gulags

Populist Disinformation Did Not Spare Even Covid Vaccines

Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign Is Aimed at a Phantom Threat

Trump's Anti-DEI Crusade Would Subject Private Employers to New State Harassment

Trump Is the Right’s Daddy Now

Elon Musk Has Appointed Himself Dictator of America

Hindu India Has Been Mimicking China's Authoritarians in Persecuting Minorities

Eliminate Eliminationism from the Trans Question

How to Build an Abundant America

Trump Withholds Congressionally Mandated Spending in Defiance of the Constitution

Neither Trump Nor Democrats Care About American Prosperity

America is an Oligarchy Now

Trump Fires Watchdogs Who Track Public Corruption While Claiming He's Fighting 'Waste, Fraud, and Abuse'

Zooming In: What Does an Unchecked Trump Mean for Freedom?

Trump’s Obscene Jan. 6 Pardons Will Live in Infamy

Biden Fixed the Immigration System that Trump Is Once Again Smashing

A Liberalism Without Apology or Fear...

What Trump Gets Wrong About Birthright Citizenship

Stephen Miller’s Sick Anti-Immigration Agenda

Trump Defies the Law to Keep TikTok Alive

Biden Is Serving His Country by Presiding Over a Peaceful Transfer of Power to Trump

In the Age of Social Media, Can We Use the Marketplace of Ideas to Serve Truth Not Lies?

Trump Uses the Threat of FCC Action to Intimidate and Shake Down CBS

Trump Aide Dictated Terms of Facebook Overhaul

We Could Use Some Real “Wokeness”

Trump Browbeats Congressional Republicans to Appoint Loyalists on Committee Assignments

The Patrimonial Style in American Politics Could Spread Under Trump

Trump’s 'No New Wars' Promise May Not Be All It's Cracked Up To Be

Are There Better Foreign Policy Alternatives to Liberal Internationalism?

Joe Biden Will Go Down as a Failed President

Two Coups, One Pattern

Will Syria Get Freedom or Sharia After Toppling its Savage Dictator?

The Bogus Case Against Birthright Citizenship for the Children of Undocumented Immigrants

Trump’s Rhino Epidemic Is Growing