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Trump Keeps Attacking Americans. Why Does He Get Away With It?
Democrats don’t do this. When Trump calls Baltimore “rat infested” or posts videos of himself defecating on protesters, there’s no coordinated response. A few members of Congress might tweet...
Comey Accuses Trump of Basing Case Against Him on “Personal Bias”
“Small arms” include armor, explosives, chemical weapons, pistols, and rifles. “Ordnance and ordnance accessories manufacturing” refers to other materials, such as artillery, barrels, extractors, and mounts. For comparison, in...
Democrats and Republicans Get Same Shutdown Request From Constituents
Americans don’t want their representatives to bow to the pressures of the government shutdown.Politicians on both sides of the aisle are hearing the same message from their constituents, whether...
Trump Judges Rule He Can Deploy National Guard to Portland
Johnson chuckled. “The president uses social media to make a point. You can argue he’s probably the most effective person who’s ever used social media for that. He is...
Video: What to Know About the ICE Raid at a Hyundai Plant
new video loaded: What to Know About the ICE Raid at a Hyundai PlantICE and other law enforcement agencies detained nearly 500 workers in Georgia in September. Farah Stockman,...
Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 Lesson for Some 2028 Democrat
It was 1859. The analogies to the current state of American politics are not precise and even paradoxical. To begin with, John Brown, though crazy and bloodthirsty, was on...
No Kings: How Mass Protests Weaken Unhinged Autocrats Like Trump
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.There were 2700 No Kings events across the country,...
Republicans Should Be Afraid—Just Look at Who Joined No Kings Protests
Listening to anyone from the Trump administration talk about the No Kings protest  would have had you expecting complete anarchy. Masked men with Molotov cocktails, smoke in the air,...
The Crime Is Nationcide
The first mention I was able to find in that search came from 1794, when Gracchus Babeuf, a French revolutionary, used the term in his The War of the...
Zohran Mamdani Gets It. So Does Marjorie Taylor Greene.
It’s a message that sounds strikingly similar to one being pushed by a decidedly different politician: Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist who is poised to become New York...
The Infamy of the “Kavanaugh Stop”
Believe it or not, there was a time when the Supreme Court’s emergency docket rulings did not regularly garner controversy; they were simply the means by which the court...
Prince Andrew Forced to Give Up Royal Titles Over Epstein Ties
And just like that, Prince Andrew is no longer a duke.The second son of Queen Elizabeth II has been on the outs with the rest of the British royal...