Trump Will Write His Nuclear Deal’s Deadliest Page After the Vote

Evelyn De Morgan, Cassandra (1898). De Morgan portrays Cassandra’s anguish as the consequence of collective disbelief: Troy burns after the…

“Criminal” Is Too Kind a Word for Trump’s Family Business.

Trump with John Alite — summer 2022 Former Gambino hitman who pleaded guilty to murder and robbery. Photo: John Alite/Facebook.

Hegseth’s Purge Is the Heritage Foundation’s Military Takeover

Newt Gingrich unveiling the Contract with America at a Capitol Hill rally, September 27, 1994. Photo credit: John Duricka / Associated…

Italy’s Strategy of Tension Ended in Massacre. Trump Has Reached the Third of Four Stages.

Julie Mehretu, Stadia II (2004). Layered abstraction evokes collective movement, urban complexity, and social tension.

Erased: Nobody Testifies Against Trump Twice

Photo source: Kozaczek. Photographer uncredited.

Impeaching Trump Won’t End the Rolling Coup. The Root Has a 250-Year Plan.

Photo: Demolition of a 1922 newspaper building addition. Americans must dismantle the Heritage Foundation through the IRS, the courts, and…

Mike Johnson’s Double Life Runs on Donor Money

Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait of Marquis d’Afflitto, 1925. The twentieth century produced many public guardians of morality. History later…

The Extinction Panic of Insecure Men

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. “ -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Americans Can Stop Trump’s Unconstitutional Coup at Any Stage

Art credit: Stanisław Lentz, Strike (Strajk), 1910. Oil on canvas. National Museum in Warsaw. Lentz concentrates on the resolve of striking…

The Coming Velvet Revolution: How 12 Million Americans Could Legally Force the House to Seat Every…

East German protesters march under the slogan “We Are the People” in Leipzig, autumn 1989, weeks before Czechoslovak students and actors…

Trump Fantasized About Nuclear War. Republicans Fretted Over “Under-Babied” Women

The president posed himself launching nuclear weapons. The Republican Party drew up a policy on childless women.

A Donor Said His $150,000 Bought a $32 Million Commitment From Susan Collins.

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The $33 Billion Test Case to Decide Who Pays for AI Data Centers.

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The Conditions That Preceded the Civil War Are Being Rehearsed

Prisoners from the Front (1866), oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain.

Crushing Trump’s Most Chilling Election Weapon

Trump wants voters afraid of ICE. His administration should fear what informed voters can do next.

Republicans Are Dragging the United States Back Toward Debtors’ Prison

William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress VII: The Prison, 1733–34. Oil on canvas. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. Hogarth intended A Rake’s…

BREAKING: One US Citizen Just Triggered a Stunning National Chain Reaction

President Trump has spent years making speaking out feel dangerous. Then one citizen did something his mob-style intimidation could not…

Trump’s Perverse Rupture

Jefferson Memorial and cherry blossoms, Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C. Photo: © Pngtree

The Strip Mall Where Clarence Thomas Hides His Wife’s Money

Art Credit: Golden Calf Above a Burning City. Unknown contemporary artist. Inspired by Exodus 32. The city burns beneath the idol while the…