Trump’s deployment of federal officers to Democratic-run cities is extreme even for him. President Donald Trump’s recent reelection campaign advertisement is straight out of the plot of a horror movie. Just days after he deployed ...
“This turns journalists into an arm of the government. We are not here to do surveillance for police.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Journalists and civil liberties advocates alike condemned a ruling Thursday by a ...
“This is an actual threat to political speech: badegeless, nameless, masked federal officers assaulting, and snatching-up protesters in Portland.” Federal agents in camo gear have been seen on the streets of Portland, Oregon pulling antiracism ...
Where Trump succeeds is in presenting himself as a Christian nationalist, much as Putin and Modi style themselves as the stout defenders of their countries’ dominant religions. (Common Dreams) It was a striking moment: Donald ...
(By: Michael Lesher, OffGuardian) Reading op-eds these days about the grim progress of COVID-19 through the United States, I sometimes have the eerie feeling that I’ve traveled backward in time and landed in some sort ...
The COVID-19 global pandemic has prompted a major question about leadership in a time of crisis: how to balance the importance of public health with the respecting of individual liberty? The virus respects no borders. ...
“The president is using the armed forces in a political ploy for his reelection campaign and I think it’s absolutely obscene.” President Trump’s “Salute to America” 4th of July spectacle will feature tanks and military ...
“Hungary’s status declined from Free to Partly Free due to sustained attacks on the country’s democratic institutions by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party.” President Trump welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the White ...
Comparisons of Trump to Hitler either seem ludicrous or perfectly on target depending on your political leanings, but do the two leaders really share any similarities? It seems that the era of our 45th President, ...
If you threaten or intimidate someone while wearing a face mask, you could risk getting sent to jail for 15 years. That is the main objective of a new bill introduced by U.S. Congressman Dan ...