J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam report on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s closure of its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
How Homeland Security Shut Down its Civil-Rights Unit
Category: Trump Administration
Max Blumenthal: AIPAC CEO Brags of US Clout
In an audio leak, the leader of Israel’s main U.S. lobby detailed his organization’s grooming of Trump’s top national security officials.
Tariffs & the US Constitution
No emergency means there is no lawful basis for Trump’s imposition of the tariffs, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Nor is there any constitutional basis for the underlying statute.
Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome
In its greed for power, domination, resources and wealth, the West, says John Wight, is headed for the same fate as Rome all those centuries ago.
In the Remains of the Diocletian Baths
Flashback: Michael Brenner envisions a conversation among four pundits of the imperium during the calamitous sack of Rome by Alaric’s Visigoths with a veiled reference to Trump’s America.
Inside US Detention-Center Brutality
An inside look at a Miami detention center where ICE sends immigrants targeted for detention and deportation under the Trump-Vance plan. Mark Dow reports.
Trump Tariffs Will Concentrate Wealth Even More
Trump’s trade war is a class war designed to weaken progressive taxation, writes Omar Ocampo.
Taking the US Constitution Seriously
Everyone should be free to speak their minds and live without fear of masked men grabbing them for deportation to a hell hole in Louisiana or El Salvador, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Impoverishing Tariffs
The rest of the world isn’t ripping off the U.S. The American trade deficit is the result of chronically large budget deficits resulting from tax cuts for the rich combined with trillions of dollars wasted on useless wars.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: American Freefall
The extent to which the U.S. has embarked on a departure from reality is only a question for empires in their waning decades.