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Will “Nice” Still Play in Peoria?
A story of America’s political heart losing its bearings
Has America Lost Europe?
From “leader of the free world” to object of distrust, America’s standing abroad has suffered a profound and self-inflicted decline.
Lies + More Lies= $1.8 Billion
Executive power repackaged as victim compensation and political revenge rebranded as justice
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself
Will Americans Succumb to Voter Intimidation?
“The Thin Red Line” - An Open Letter to Non-MAGA Republicans
Will Republicans Defend Trump — or Democracy?
How Our Republic Dies
Endless war, executive overreach, and the betrayal of the American soldier.
The Gateway Drug to War in Iran: How America's "War on Narco-Terrorism" Became a War on Law Itself
The Steady State | by Annie Pforzheimer and Ambassador (Ret) Luis G. Moreno
The Actual Threat
How MAGA’s far-right fringe weaponizes religion, race, and anti-constitutional politics
The "Long Con" - Trump’s Billion Dollar Ballroom
How Trump turned a vanity project into a taxpayer-funded “security necessity”
"1776 Is Not for Sale"--The Revolution’s Lessons Stand in Stark Contrast to Today’s Politics of Isolation and Arrogance.
The Steady State | by Adam Wasserman
The Court That Erased a People—Again
From Plessy to the Present, Judicial Power as an Instrument of Disappearance
