Live Free or Die: America vs. Science
A few days ago, the testimony of a nurse from South Dakota made international headlines. In a tweet, Jodi Doering recounted the harrowing experience of having to deal with patients dying from…
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Trump’s Incompetent Authoritarianism Failed, But A Smarter Trump Looms
With the dust settling, it will be clear that Trump left the White House as he entered it: with utter contempt for democratic institutions, themselves alarmingly weak, but mercifully without…
What Happens To Radical Right-Wing Populism After Trump?
On November 3, Donald Trump lost. Not as bigly as his detractors hoped and expected, but bigly enough to bury any chance that he would be allowed to play president…
The GOP Is The Anti-Democracy Party
Since the advent of parliamentary democracy based on universal suffrage, law-makers have faced a dilemma. What to do about political parties that refuse to accept the ‘rules of the game’?…
Donald v. Democracy: Trump Takes Election Loss Like Defiant Dictator
As these words are written, US President Donald Trump and his supporters are challenging the results of the 2020 election; an outcome that has Trump losing to his Democratic challenger,…
What Happened to Trump’s Big, Beautiful Wall?
One of the best-known of Donald Trump’s many campaign promises in 2016 was that “he” would build a “big, beautiful wall” along America’s southern border with Mexico to prevent illegal…
America Is No Longer One Nation
Another American election has come and gone. And, once again, enlightened pundits on both sides of the Atlantic are scratching their heads. How is it possible that some 70 million…
What will happen when America goes to the polls?
The United States is at a crossroads. As the nation faces elections on Nov. 3, its voters are being presented with one of the starkest, most consequential choices in memory.…
The Trump Administration Targets Critical Race Theory
In his latest attack on democratic values and principles, US President Donald Trump issued executive orders purging critical race theory (CRT) from diversity training in US federal agencies. According to the…
The Proud Boys Are Standing By
During the first U.S. presidential debate that took place on September 29, President Trump was asked to disavow white supremacists and instead told the Proud Boys to “stand back and…