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If Donald Trump hoped to make Americans feel nostalgic about Richard Nixon, he's succeeded. Those were the days of relatively modest abuse of presidential power, comparatively speaking, which Nixon at least felt constrained to engage in discreetly. They were days when merely sporadic acts abusing democracy sufficed to generate a bipartisan ...Read more

"Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents," Donald Trump declared at his 2025 inauguration. Hold that thought.

Trump is now using the immense power of the state to distract from a scandal that could bring him down. That is, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a fiend who sexually ...Read more

The Trump administration is enthusiastically abusing its power to intimidate anyone who criticizes its policies, and to silence those who won't fall in line. Now, using a long-standing government tactic, the administration is leveraging a tragedy to justify its censorship campaign.

The government is villainizing and threatening to punish ...Read more

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told a right-wing podcaster, "this" being the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. They did it the easy way. All Carr had to do was speak the words, and within hours, literally, Kimmel was gone from ABC, along with Disney, Nexstar and ...Read more

First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't ... a lameass?

No. In this Niemoller scenario, the deplatforming of the host of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" comes at the end of the slippery slope, not the beginning. ABC canned Bill Maher 23 years ago for mocking Bush-era propaganda about our sainted Middle East occupation ...Read more

On the Fourth of July, Tres Taylor woke with a heavy heart. Congress had just passed what President Donald Trump called "One Big Beautiful Bill," but it felt pretty ugly considering it included $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs that help our nation's most vulnerable citizens.

On social media Tres said, "I think we ...Read more

Charlie Kirk is dead, and so is one of the two bosses I wanted to see dead.

Maybe a little backstory.

I'm 68. I've been working since I was 14. I've worked part time. I've worked full time. I've had two jobs at the same time. I've been well-paid, underpaid, union and non-union. I've worn a tie to work, and I've worn a uniform to work. I've ...Read more

The Tesla board has offered to make Elon Musk the planet's first trillionaire if he meets certain milestones in rocketing the automaker to new glory.

Did Musk show true brilliance the first time around? Yes, he did. Tesla's stock price rose 700% in 2020, making it more valuable than Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors and Ford combined.

But ...Read more

I used to be a real do-gooder. National Board of Common Cause under Archie Cox and Fred Wertheimer; chair of the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission; professor of election law. I did these things after working in the trenches because I really believed in the possibility of cleaning up the system. Until the Supreme Court got in the way. And, of...Read more

Sept. 11, 2001: United Flight 93 flew in a tragic turquoise sky with 40 souls aboard. The passengers did not know each other when they boarded the plane to San Francisco.

The captain and crew did not know they were destined to turn dust to dust. First Officer LeRoy Homer Jr. is an unsung hero in American history, as are all those on that ...Read more

My life goals have never included making a lot of money ... and I've certainly succeeded in that regard.

Yet, I do consider myself rich. Not like the Wall Street "richie-rich," but in the modest sense of middle-class well-being -- basically, enough to make ends meet. It's not my good looks that put me in this lucky zone, but one particular ...Read more

Recently, the student newspaper at an elite northeastern university analyzed the list of outside speakers invited to campus in order to assess where they stood politically. Two years in a row, it found that 93% of the speakers were on the left, and only 7% on the right.

Students in one class staunchly defended these percentages. One said ...Read more

This is not about Charlie Kirk. He was admirable as a debater and as a conservative who welcomed debate. Some of his utterances were reprehensible, but no one should die because of opinions.

This is about the 22-year-old who apparently shot and killed Kirk from a rooftop -- and also the 20-year-old who shot at Donald Trump during a ...Read more

The Trump administration is quietly using a program called 287(g) to turn local police and sheriff's departments into arms of its deportation machine.

This week, the Trump administration hit a milestone of 1,000 participating state and local agencies. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is aggressively recruiting for this deportation-...Read more

From the get-go, President Donald Trump blamed the "radical left" for Charlie Kirk's death, even though the shooter's identity and motive were not yet known. Trump called for "all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree." Good, both sides, which...Read more