During the 2024 Presidential campaign, Trump met with about two dozen oil executives at Mar-A-Lago. He said, if you give my campaign a billion dollars, I’ll end Biden’s “war on oil.” Collectively, they gave nearly $220 billion, most of it to Trump and various...
(The quote paraphrases the GOP “leader” who is two heartbeats away from the Presidency.) Previously, Trump, GOP politicians and news outlets on “the right” repeatedly claimed that Democrats were “radical left lunatics” who were “demonic.” Many people who...
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, accusations flew furiously from “the right” that “left wing radicals” were responsible. And, it might indeed turn out that Sullivan had been radicalized by leftist rhetoric, most likely on increasingly toxic and unhinged social...
On Friday night, June 13, two political assassinations took place in Minnesota by a man who violently angry about abortion and LGBTQ rights. https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/15/vance-boelter-accused-of-assassination-of-dfl-house-leader-melissa-hortman-apprehended...
In the U.S., we enjoy the protections of the First Amendment, particularly around political speech –– talking or writing about the wrongs that government and its agencies do. In Russia, as in many other autocratic legal/political systems, dissent is punished by the...