United States

Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Won’t Make America Safe Again

In fact, they will increase crime rates in the country

Jul 25 •

Republicans' Bogus Claims that Democrats Acted Illicitly in Replacing Biden

Shikha Dalmia on MAGA voters’ disregard for governing fitness and Berny Belvedere on how replacing Biden is perfectly legitimate

Jul 24 •

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Berny Belvedere

JD Vance Is Ready to Remake America in MAGA's Image

Trump's VP pick combines ideological zeal with a willingness to use the state to quash political enemies who stand in his way

Jul 17 •

Justice Roberts Subverted the Separation of Powers and Created a Dangerously Unaccountable President

The court's immunity ruling will make it hard to punish Trump for his past lawlessness, while inviting future abuses

Jul 10 •

Niall Ferguson: The Intellectual Underwriter of Trump's American Carnage Idea

Hatred of the woke is causing this hawk to wildly exaggerate America's decline and make absurd comparisons with the Soviet Union

Jul 7 •

The Roberts Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling Has Lost Nearly Everyone Except for the Far Right

Commentators across the ideological spectrum are puzzled to dismayed at the majority’s indifference to executive accountability

Jul 6 •

Berny Belvedere

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Rededicating Ourselves to the Principles of the Ongoing American Revolution

Some truths are as self-evident this July 4th as they were in 1776

Jul 4 •

The Criminal Justice System Is Being Positively Kind to Donald Trump and MAGA Insurrectionists

Yet they are playing victim while showing no concern for the abuse ordinary Americans endure

Jul 2 •

Elon Musk’s Statist Road to Free Speech

This self-proclaimed free speech absolutist is aggressively deploying government power to kill the 'woke mind virus'

Jun 27 •

Is Trump a Fascist or Something Else Entirely?: A Conversation with Nicholas Grossman

He will defeat American liberal democracy through utter contempt for its institutions, not a revolution

Jun 23 •

Berny Belvedere

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The Biden Administration Is Facilitating a Rogue President’s Ability to Spy on Opponents

It has killed popular bipartisan reforms that would have curbed executive abuse of surveillance powers

Jun 20 •

Elizabeth Goitein

Responsible Conservatism Really Was a Thing for a While

David Austin Walsh’s intellectual history of the American right is excellent but overstates Trumpism's continuity with the conservatism that preceded it

Jun 18 •

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