If a democratic political following begins to behave like a religious one, then the boundaries of power...
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Every democracy is sustained by a simple covenant: that truth, however inconvenient, must remain public property. The...
Each public feud, leaked chat, or ideological split chips away at the image of a seamless populist...
Political fatigue can be a door cracked open, but what comes through it depends on honesty. The...
Politically, the administration faces a choice: confrontation or conversation. Thus far, President Trump has opted for the...
If October 18 proved anything, it is that the fight for democracy isn’t only fought in elections...
Whether the American experiment survives this chapter will depend on who the nation decides to be: spectators...
History offers no shortage of warnings about how democracies decay: not through sudden coups, but through the...
The struggle against authoritarianism is not confined to rallies, hashtags, or elections. It is also waged quietly...
Every generation of Americans inherits the same unfinished task, to decide whether liberty is a living principle...
The ceasefire may indeed hold, and if it does, lives will be spared. But the cost of...
As the dust settles, one truth becomes unavoidable. No people can live forever under siege, and no...
If the founders feared the standing army, it was because they understood its symbolic power: the quiet...
The Trump administration’s use of the Department of Justice as a political cudgel is no longer theoretical;...
Stephen Miller’s two-second hesitation on live television might have seemed trivial. But in the context of a...
Whether this period becomes a turning point toward renewed civic discipline or a slide into chronic confrontation...
Authoritarianism succeeds not through strength, but through obedience. No leader, however ambitious or ruthless, can govern without...
Armored vehicles roll through quiet suburbs, drones scan urban skies, and tactical squads deploy in neighborhoods where...
History shows us that authoritarianism does not descend all at once. It arrives gradually, disguised as safety,...
Trump’s speech crystallized a vision of America at war with itself, a vision in which cities are...
Together, Trump and Hegseth represent the convergence of hubris and inexperience, with the potential to steer the...
He’s shifted from not knowing about iot, to dismissing it as irrelevant, to quietly surrounding himself with...
We condemn extremism among other religions and governments abroad while ignoring the holy mandates shaping law, policy,...
Reasserting secular freedom does not mean silencing believers. On the contrary, it means ensuring that belief remains...
Trump and his allies now insist that criticism of Kirk dishonors the dead, yet for years they...
The Trump administration has already blurred lines between civilian leadership and partisan loyalty, and Hegseth’s rhetoric about...
The alignment of sheriffs, militias, and veterans with Trump’s second-term agenda reveals the anatomy of authoritarian drift....
By declaring emergencies at a record pace and sending National Guard units into multiple U.S. cities, he...
The thigh tattoo tells the story. In that image of Charlie Kirk permanently inked on human flesh,...
The closure of Alligator Alcatraz should have marked the end of a controversial chapter in U.S. immigration...