The Republican Senate Chickens Out
With more than a dozen Republican senators publicly criticizing President Trump’s slush fund while Trump himself equivocated about whether he would kill it, the reconciliation bill was going to be [...]
Trump Trips Up Trump – The American Prospect
Trump racked up back-to-back wins in his successful campaigns to oust two non-MAGA Republican incumbents, Sen. Bill Cassidy in Louisiana and Rep. Tom Massie in Kentucky, both of whom lost [...]
Time to Stop Lionizing Powell
In the ongoing struggle over the independence of the Fed, Trump finally blinked first. His toady prosecutor, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, abruptly announced this morning [...]
Trump Sabotages His Own Much-Exaggerated Iran Deal
On Thursday and Friday, there seemed to be progress toward a war-ending deal. President Trump went along with an Iranian demand that Israel must cease bombing Lebanon as a precondition [...]
Israel and the Cease-Fire – The American Prospect
President Trump’s hapless efforts to extricate himself and the United States from his failed Iran war may have one salutary piece of collateral damage. There is now a wedge between [...]
Trump’s Venezuela Colony – The American Prospect
It’s hard to know which is more pathetic—Trump coveting the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, or Machado giving the framed Nobel medal [...]
Constitutional Softball: Congress Gives Up Its Power of the Purse
The $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which has now passed the House and Senate, attempts to push Pete Hegseth to release the full “double-tap” video of the summary execution [...]
Trump’s Newest Policy: Is It Racist? Is It Megalomaniacal? It’s Both!…
Within just the past week, two of Donald Trump’s most fundamental priorities have shared the spotlight. The first is his white nationalism, or more precisely, his white global nationalism, embodied [...]
Trump’s New Best Friend – The American Prospect
The Israeli government has played Donald Trump like a violin. Netanyahu has welcomed Trump’s entirely bogus love for the Jews, which helps Bibi equate criticism of his own barbarism with [...]
Trump Decides to Own the Shutdown
In the past 24 hours, we’ve been treated to a combination of first-term and second-term Trump. On Monday, the president agreed to a meeting with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries [...]
American Fascism – The American Prospect
A couple of weeks ago, there was a brief dustup when Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok started spewing out antisemitic riffs and praising Hitler. Musk apologized. In the ongoing discussions [...]
What If Trump’s Iran Gamble Pays Off?
Once again, Benjamin Netanyahu has manipulated a U.S. president into not just accepting his military decisions, but following his lead. When it came to Israel’s brutal annihilation of Gaza, Joe [...]
The Court Lets Trump Run Amok Over Agencies That Protect Workers and …
One venerable bit of folk wisdom has forever contended that there are different laws for the rich and the poor. The words inscribed over the doors to the Supreme Court—“Equal [...]
Pressuring Republican Reps to Pressure Trump
I’ve been taking stock of the possible firebreaks against Trump’s illegal marauding. One is the Supreme Court, the ultimate guardian of the rule of law. The high court has belatedly [...]
Tariffs, Pundits, and Democrats – The American Prospect
Trump’s insane trade war has pushed a solid economy toward inflation and recession, roiled financial markets, and united other nations against the United States. Worse is yet to come in [...]
Trump’s and MAGA’s Own Identity Politics: White, Preferably Racist
Donald Trump is giving whitewashing a bad name. His executive order of last Thursday directed Vice President Vance, who’s a member of the Smithsonian’s board, and budget director Russell Vought [...]
Fascism’s Feeble Firebreaks – The American Prospect
The Wall Street Journal editorial page, home of fact-bending and scorn directed at liberals, has been doing some soul-searching lately. The Tuesday page had four pieces that could have run [...]
The Coherence in Trump’s Incoherence
In past few days, Trump has reversed himself on tariffs twice, warned Putin to lighten up on Ukraine, and reined in Elon Musk. This is in addition to countless lesser [...]