Donald Trump

J6 and the three rings of sedition

By John Stoehr / April 26, 2022 /

Jamie Raskin: “I want people to pay attention to what’s going on here, because it’s as close to fascism as I ever want my country to come to.”

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The problem isn’t a billionaire like Elon Musk buying Twitter. The problem is the government’s fear of regulating billionaires

By Claire Bond Potter / April 26, 2022 /

More likely than a mass exodus from the social media platform is that things will go on much as they did before.

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Orrin Hatch, champion of revanchist values and father of judicial extremism, is dead

By Erik Loomis / April 24, 2022 /

For all his work in making the nation worse, Donald Trump presented Hatch with the Presidential Medal of Freedom that year. 

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We now have evidence of Trump’s two-tiered coup

By Lindsay Beyerstein / April 16, 2022 /

New recording shows insurgents storming the US Capitol intended to pressure Republican lawmakers into overturning the election.

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Does a jobs market favoring workers for the first time in 50 years make a sound if no one in the press is there to hear it?

By Jason Sattler / April 8, 2022 /

Understand the power you have before corporations take it back.

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The break up of Big Business and the GOP isn’t happening. It already happened. Will the Democrats seize the opportunity?

By John Stoehr / April 7, 2022 /

The Republican Party’s entrenchment of “a heteronormative view of a Eurocentric patriarchal America” is bad for business.

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Steal an election? Bush v Gore did. Ted Cruz helped. He advised Trump on how to do it again

By Mia Brett / March 31, 2022 /

Cruz said he was convinced Al Gore “was trying to steal the presidency.”

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Is Ginni Thomas a paranoid conspiracy theorist with prior knowledge of the J6 ‘coup in search of a legal theory’?

By John Stoehr / March 29, 2022 /

The question is her husband’s problem now.

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The J6 committee’s theory about Trump’s crimes passes first test

By Lindsay Beyerstein / March 28, 2022 /

It’s hard to see anyone reading the judge’s scathing analysis and doubt whether a criminal investigation is necessary.

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No, Trump’s toady did not pay a price for standing up to him

By Lindsay Beyerstein / March 25, 2022 /

The former president isn’t a kingmaker. Mo Brooks is a loser.

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