Conversations between the two leaders came up during the direct action group’s legal challenge to its proscription at the High Court last week, John McEvoy and Dania Akkad report.
Alan MacLeod on the capture of media systems by the planet’s mega-rich and the existential threat that poses to an open society and the free flow of information.
By ordering the annihilation of people in speedboats in the Caribbean, Trump and Hegseth have assumed powers that numerous laws forbid, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas; lie down with neocons, you wake up with wars, says Daniel McAdams. So goes Trump’s 28-point plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Trump’s constitutional breaches are enough to rouse James Madison from his grave, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. On top of all that comes “The Kavanaugh Stop.”
Every dictatorship is a grotesque opera buffa. No encomium is too outrageous. No bribe too small. No violation of civil liberties too extreme. No stupidity too absurd. All dissent, no matter how tepid, is treason.
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.
The anti-Trump demonstration was a classic astroturf operation organized by Democratic Party operatives, writes Margaret Kimberley. Real political action is different.