Nixon at least understood the people had a right to know. Trump's crowd has decided that people have no rights the president needs to respect and they’ll keep believing that exactly as long as we let them.
Destroying public schools is Florida's plan, and it may be working.
Republicans' sycophantic ways, worshiping at the alter of Trump, won’t come without a cost. A blue wave is coming. They can't say they weren’t warned.
Colbert belongs in a distinctly American satirical tradition that stretches back to Benjamin Franklin. The great American satirists have used humor not to reject the national project, but to expose the gap between its ideals and its realities.
The generations that defeated fascism in the 1770s, 1860s, and 1940s understood something simple but profound: democracy survives only if ordinary people are willing to defend it. Are we today?
Despite the daily frenetic social posts and statements from Trump, members of his Cabinet continue to project their own moral and political visions of America throughout 2026 and beyond.
We need to insist on some sort of a user Magna Carta that limits the rights of these tech monarchs over our rights.
Because grifting chutzpah is his nature, and because there’s never enough money to fill the ugly gaping hole where his soul should be, Trump is still running penny-ante scams.
Kash Patel snorkeling over the tomb of the Arizona's sailors is just another flashing warning light of the moral collapse of the people elevated by Trump.
The Republican Party's systematic assault against the voting power of Black people is a deliberate attempt to deny them political representation and silence their voices.
Republicans' report card is so bad right now not even a hungry junkyard dog would eat it.
As Republicans face the electorate in upcoming midterms, Trump and the GOP will have to work to reclaim the support of regretful voters. Failure to do so could cost Republicans Congress in 2026 and, ultimately, the presidency in 2028.
How the billionaire-backed Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 are weaponizing government to strip away women's rights, votes, and freedom.
Not all countries that host U.S. troops invest as much in their infrastructure as Germany does, and having those troops elsewhere could prove far more costly than having them in Germany.
The farm crisis unfolding across this country is not inevitable. It is a consequence of choices, and choices can be changed.
Race is—at least in the South—a reliable predictor of how someone will vote. And that makes race a potentially irresistible lure for those designing congressional districts.
The Trump administration is trying to tie the hands of future administrations when it comes to regulating pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions.