Here is CNN.COM: Wisconsin voters on Tuesday delivered Democrats their biggest boost since President Donald Trump returned to power, handing liberals a state Supreme Court majority and defying Elon Musk’s record-shattering effort to bolster a conservative Trump acolyte. Liberal Susan Crawford defeated conservative Brad […]
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“Would you want your doctors not to be revisionists?”
We covered Trump’s executive order on American history here. Today at The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight offers his thoughts. A taste: According to the president, “objective facts” have been replaced with a “distorted narrative driven by […]
Trump’s executive order on American history has little to do with history
Donald Trump recently released a new executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” Let’s break it down. Trump writes: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States […]
Is Trump capitulation “on the way out?”
It’s probably wishful thinking, but The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and some Republican members of the Congress may be waking up. Here is Dana Milbank at The Washington Post: Wednesday found White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doing what […]
Pestana: Trump comparisons to George III unfairly malign George III
Here is historian Carla Pestana at The Conversation: George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly. During both the first and now the second term of President Donald Trump, commentators in the U.S. […]
How a court evangelical thinks
If you want to get a good sense of how a court evangelical thinks, Jim Garlow‘s recent blog post is a good place to start. Garlow was an active court evangelical during Trump’s first term and earlier this week he […]
The Court Evangelicals 2.0 gathered today in the White House
Back in the first Trump administration I coined the term “court evangelicals” to describe the evangelical Christians who gathered around Trump. Here is a taste of a piece I wrote in January 2020: Last Friday (Jan. 3), nearly every major […]
Trump: “I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do.”
Here is the Associated Press story on Trump’s call for the impeachment of a U.S. District Judge: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a federal judge who tried to stop his deportation plans should be impeached, escalating his conflict with […]
Trump is “unilaterally disarming America of its soft power, making the United States no different from China, Russia, or Iran.”
If you want a good overview of Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID, check out George Packer’s piece in the latest issue of The Atlantic. A few snippets: The best way to dismantle the federal government, then repurpose it as a tool […]
Trump silences Voice of America
The title of Dana Milbank’s Washington Post piece says it all: “Stalin, Mao and Khomeini couldn’t quell freedom’s voice. But Trump did.” Here is a taste: Voice of America went on the air eight weeks after Pearl Harbor. “We bring […]
“The main divide in American politics today isn’t between liberals and conservatives or left and right. It’s between those who believe in the system and those who don’t.”Â
Here is Shadi Hmid at The Washington Post: The main divide in American politics today isn’t between liberals and conservatives or left and right. It’s between those who believe in the system and those who don’t. And sometimes it really […]
“Even a first-year law student knows that the federal government cannot dictate the viewpoint and curriculum of a private Christian school”
Here is David French at The New York Times: This might sound like a funny thing to say, but I’ve rarely read a more unconstitutional letter. On Monday, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sent the […]
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A Christian Palestinian journalist worked on “Arab Sesame Street.” He has things to say about Trump’s cuts to USAID funding
Daoud Kuttab is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and a graduate of Messiah University, the school where I teach American history. Some of you may remember his Current piece on the one year anniversary of the Gaza War. Here is a […]
Trump’s “bronana republic”
Dennis Jett is a former American ambassador to Peru and Mozambique. He teaches international affairs at Penn State University. Here is a taste of his recent op-ed at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: …Perhaps the strongest case can be made, however, is […]
The Trump administration is going after private faith-based colleges
David French is on the case:
We heard from Trump last night. But what do Americans really think about the issues?
Digby’s Hullabaloo shares information from Pew Research Center: Economy: 24% of U.S. adults say the economy is in excellent or good shape, while far more say it’s doing only fair (45%) or poor (31%). Looking ahead, partisans have very different predictions about what […]
Donald Trump says he was “saved by God to make America great again.” What are evangelicals saying?
Apparently God saved Trump to deport immigrants, fire federal employees without notice, start a trade war, cut aid to suffering people around the world, and bow to Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin. Let’s see what evangelicals are saying about Trump’s speech […]
“Rubio is privately frustrated that Trump has effectively sidelined him.”
Trouble in Trump land? Here is Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair: Even as it was happening on Friday, the Oval Office blowup between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was being cast as one of America’s darkest moments on the […]
More people will suffer and die in Ukraine because Trump needs his ego stroked
In case you missed it last night, the United States stopped military aid to Ukraine. This is what happens in Trump world when you don’t kiss the president’s ring. More people will die this week in Ukraine because Trump believes […]