Biden Family Grift vs. Trump Family Grift: Let’s Do the Numbers
And it’s not even close. If anyone is wondering, I did not forget to put the Biden numbers on the graph. They are just too small to be visible next…
Senator Bill Cassidy and the Drama of Republican Capitulation. Act Two
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Todd Blanche is now Attorney General of the United States. By a vote of 50-49, the Senate confirmed him early in the morning of August 8. His…
Gaza’s Board of Pieces
Chris Hedges ScheerPost There is no ceasefire in Gaza. There is no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is no roadmap to ending the genocide or mechanism to creation of a…
Court Makes It Clear That the White House Is Not Donald Trump’s Plaything
Austin Sarat ScheerPost More than fifty years ago, New York’s Governor Nelson Rockefeller was accused of having an “edifice complex.” He pled guilty. In an appearance in September 1970 at…
Trump Threatens Severe “Treason” Charges Against “Leakers” in Truth Social Rant
By Chris Walker This article was originally published by Truthout “Long term jail sentences will be sought!” Trump promised in an online post. In a Truth Social post early Thursday…
The Attention Engine
Media Manipulation, Institutional Decay, and the Strategy Behind Trump’s Grip on Power Nolan Higdon Substack “I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its…
Don Corleone Trump
Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos Chris Hedges ScheerPost I visited Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal Casino in…
Trump’s Embarrassing Failure to Find a Scapegoat for the Reflecting Pool Disaster
Austin Sarat When things don’t go well for President Trump, his usual response is to search for someone or something to blame. Rigged elections, weaponized prosecutions, and the deep state…
Gaza’s “Peace Plan” Is Written in Blood
Joshua Scheer President Donald Trump calls his Gaza agreement a “major milestone” toward peace. For Palestinians living beneath Israeli aircraft and beside an ever-advancing military boundary, that triumphal language bears…
His Majesty’s Plunder: The Royal Machine Behind The Trump Highway and Western Sahara’s Phosphate Wealth
The Cradle’s N. Africa Correspondent There is a machine in the Sahara you can see from space. A conveyor belt, the longest on earth, nearly one hundred kilometers of steel…
Trump Administration Comes Clean About Canceling Grants for Political Reasons. Congress Won’t Do Anything, Voters Need to Respond.
Austin Sarat ScheerPost When the Congress of the United States appropriates funds for a particular purpose, it is the president’s job to expend those funds as directed by Congress. Seems…
House Committee Subpoenas BreakThrough News
Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Trump’s war on dissent. Republican-controlled House committee subpoenas BreakThrough News in effort to force outlet to turn over financial records. The Republican-controlled House Ways and Means…
Trump’s Phantom Enemies
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent. Chris Hedges ScheerPost The State Department’s 100-page report on Cuba’s “campaign of…
One Judicial Opinion Should Be Required Reading Before the Midterm Elections. It’s Portrait of the Trump Administration Is Deeply Disturbing
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Judges write like judges. The opinions they produce are for lawyers, law professors, and other judges, not for ordinary citizens. Reading them is hardly a pleasant or…
Ukraine: America’s Enduring Proxy War on Russia
Eisenhower’s warning that US policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite supplies a specific reason the US sustains the Ukraine war: Ukraine has become a unique, live-fire laboratory for…