Donald Trump's rant at Bill Maher proves he is a lame duck
After Bill Maher called him a lame duck, Donald Trump launched a social media diatribe against the comedian, showing a president distracted by personal grudges.
By Daniel Okafor ·
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Donald Trump trades facts for fantasy in war with Bill Maher
After a White House dinner ended in a record-long Truth Social tirade, Donald Trump is substituting imaginary poll numbers for actual data to win a personal feud.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Trump names Katie Zacharia and trades the law for loyalty
President Trump appointed Katie Zacharia as press secretary despite her history of conspiracy posts, a move that replaces professional neutrality with ideological loyalty and threatens the rule of law.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Trump chooses Katie Zacharia for a role she cannot sustain
Donald Trump offers Katie Zacharia the press secretary post, choosing media loyalty over the professional durability required to handle the demands of Washington.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Donald Trump treats voting rules as tools and erodes public trust
By urging supporters to vote by mail after years of attacks, Donald Trump treats election mechanics as a partisan weapon and undermines the legitimacy of the ballot box.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Trump targets Tom Cotton with mob tactics over clock bill
By publishing Senator Tom Cotton's private phone number to force a vote, Donald Trump substituted public intimidation for constitutional procedure and damaged our institutional legitimacy.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Trump attacks Maria Elvira Salazar to enforce total obedience
After Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar criticized mass deportations in a campaign ad, Donald Trump used Truth Social to attack her, proving that loyalty to his cruelty outweighs any concern for voters.
By Alma Cordero ·
Trump's AI Force replaces actual safety with a branding exercise
President Donald Trump's plan to form an AI Force and appoint a czar while rejecting constraints is a dangerous bet on ex-post litigation that fails the implementation test.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Trump's ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico is institutional fraud
My father was an actuary; he lived and breathed the cold, hard reality of risk and probability.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Trump's 'hoax' label for AI safety is a sprint toward a cliff
From the Atlantic edge of Europe, we have a long memory for the way big powers treat the "rules" they write for everyone else.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Ossoff annoys Trump, White House, to Democratic delight and dismay
The persistent media focus on Natalie Harp—the 35-year-old executive assistant to Donald Trump—is less a story about loyalty and more a case study in operational control failure.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
McGurn sells attention data; Kathleen Clark calls it brazen corruption
The ledger sheets for Trump Media & Technology Group tell a familiar story—a tale of massive losses and even more massive hubris.
By Grant Colby ·
TMTG sells Donald Trump's posts: a private casino for trading firms
The border is where I learned to read power—not just the physical line of concrete and wire, but the invisible lines drawn around who gets access, who gets safe passage, and whose labor counts.
By Alma Cordero ·
Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts
The fundamental currency of any functional state—the word, the promise, the commitment—is being treated less like an article of national trust and more like a highly volatile futures contract.
By Tom Beckwith ·