United States

Russia Resurrected and Exported a Fascist Ideology to the West

That the Trump administration is targeting ‘enemies within’ instead of Putin shows how much America has already succumbed to it

Mar 8 • Tom G. Palmer

Vance Puts MAGA Ideology Above All Else

For the vice president, even white nationalists who target his Indian American wife don't merit disavowal

Mar 5 • Berny Belvedere

Iran's Youth Broke the Islamic Republic's Spell Before the Airstrikes

An Iranian exile on the generation of women and youth who did the real work of dismantling the theocracy

Mar 3 • Pouya Nikmand

RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim

He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary

Mar 2 • Matt Johnson

Trump's Unauthorized Strikes on Iran Take America's Imperial Presidency to New Heights

Khamenei's departure is nothing to mourn but regime change might require more than air strikes

Mar 1 • Ilya Somin

Trump's New Grift Is to Name Structures After Himself and Then Cash in on the Brand: An Executive Watch Roundup

Our early-March selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law

Feb 28 • Executive Watch

Trump Can't Win on the Cheap in Iran

His saber rattling won't convince the mullahs to relinquish their nuclear quest

Feb 26 • Nicholas Grossman

Trump Has Other Means to Make Tariff Mischief

Unless Congress takes back its tariff power, there will be no ‘liberation day’ for America

Feb 24 • Joe Bishop-Henchman

If Forced to Choose, Our Military Leaders Should Follow the Law Not the President—Like Ulysses S. Grant

The choices the Civil War general faced can inform how they ought to conduct themselves in these perilous times

Feb 23 • Kori Schake

The DHS Funding Fight Shows That Trump Thinks Basic Rights Are a Bargaining Tool

Democrats are no bold reformers for asking him to uphold the Constitution as he pledged to do

Feb 21 • Radley Balko

What Are Heterodox Free Speech Warriors Doing About Trump's Censorship-Industrial Complex? Nada

Trump is issuing subpoenas demanding social media platforms hand over data about ICE protesters but the 'Twitter Files' agitators couldn't care less

Feb 19 • Mike Masnick

Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections

America's system is quite foolproof but he can still try to delegitimize it

Feb 13 • Andy Craig

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