Miller represents the sharpest fighting edge of the Trump administration. When Trump says he wants to do deals with the Democrats, he has signaled that he’s going to bring...
Appointing Stephen Miller to replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, President Donald Trump signaled he’ll adopt a combative approach to dealing with the incoming Democratic-controlled Congress. Indeed, notwithstanding the differences between a democratically elected leader in peacetime and a despotic dictator in wartime, this is Trump’s equivalent of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s […]
Taking a break from calling President Donald Trump an authoritarian, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has decided to unilaterally eliminate the death penalty in California, rewriting sentences in hundreds of cases against the will of California voters. On his way out of office, Newsom commuted the sentences of all 548 convicted criminals on California’s death row. […]
Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party is seeking to outlaw five opposition parties. It’s a move that would remove competitors ahead of the 2028 parliamentary elections and further reduce freedom in a once exemplary democracy. The Constitutional Court, filled with Georgian Dream loyalists, began hearing the case in October. The lawsuit targets the parties: United National […]
The political equivalent of an asteroid strike hit the Grand Old Party on Tuesday night. A blue wave tore through traditionally red strongholds, flipping the governorships in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, and other red-leaning states, and handing Democrats control of both houses of Congress with significant majorities. The Republican Party was handed an unmistakable, undeniable mandate […]
PITTSBURGH — The photographs hang near the front of the building, and John Thornton walks visitors past them the way some fathers show off old Little League pictures. Here is a rover he and his colleagues built some 15 years ago. Here is a larger rover photographed at night on a western Pennsylvania slag heap, […]
