LATEST Update on DSA'S New proposal for drastic governmental changesDSA has finally revealed on its website what dramatic governmental changes it is promoting. As previously noted, it would be to eliminate the U.S. Senate and replace the President and the Supreme Court with an Executive and a Judiciary chosen by, and...
It is more likely that President Donald J. Trump was driven by his vanity rather than by the necessity of stopping Iran from attacking America when he bombed Iran and started a war.
There were no grounds for the necessity of starting a war.
After the initial wave of strikes against...
Introducing a Paradigm of Power
Britannica defines power as the capacity to influence or dominate others. This framework holds that power arises from three distinct yet interrelated sources: control of resources, influence over dominant beliefs, and control of the means of force. Each source represents a different form of capacity—material,...
Sociologist Gregory D. Squires argues that it’s a myth that taxes drive millionaires to flee cities and states that tax them. An abridgment of Squire’s Baltimore Sun commentary, from Monday, January 26, 2026, forms the second half of this piece, where he provides empirical evidence that this belief is false....
Domestic political violence begins by defining who the enemy is
Donald Trump is the only president to have faced three highly visible assassination attempts. Trump and some former presidents, such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, have exceeded that number under a broader definition of attempts, including those that were disrupted and...
“The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by Congress” is how Michael Waldman, CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, describes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The former counsel to Sen. Mitch McConnell wrote in the conservative National Review that “It federalizes elections in a way that Republicans have long opposed.”
Since mid-March, the Senate...
Our military’s overwhelming tactical victories do not amount to a winning strategy. Even though Trump told the nation in his April televised address that the world is watching and “can’t believe what they’re seeing, the brilliance of the United States military!” A strategy can only succeed by setting a...
Two thousand years separate the Roman Marcus Licinius Crassus in his failed attempt to invade Iran from President Donald J. Trump’s faltering current military effort. Nevertheless, they share the same character flaws that led them to make disastrous decisions. Crassus’s effort resulted in the Roman Army’s worst defeat since...
Even in war, we need to protect our democratic culture.
While Trump’s Iranian War may continue to capture our much-needed attention, it is essential that the public see this conflict as representative of our Trump era of rule – where rules are twisted far beyond their original intent.
Despite the Administration’s...
From FDR Presidential Library & Museum, Manuel G. Silberger, Lithograph 1936, WPA - Federal Art Project
If conservatives accept President Donald Trump’s agenda to dismantle our republic’s laws and principles, they could go down The Road to Serfdom, as Friedrich A. Hayek’s book title suggests.
Hayek, an Austrian-British economist and Nobel laureate, believed that “the...
Overcoming opposition from right-wing Republicans and left-wing Democrats, the House reached a compromise to pass the budget bill and the Continuing Resolution (CR). The agreement funds all departments except the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If the parties don’t reach a compromise on a funding bill for DHS, its...
An elderly naturalized U.S. citizen forced out of his home by ICE into the freezing weather
ICE agents’ aggressive tactics in arresting people in their homes, workplaces, and from their cars have sparked nationwide protests, as they appear to be acting as the president’s paramilitary police rather than as a publicly...
Class conflict in America has been primarily framed either in economic terms favored by the left or in cultural terms favored by the right. The Epstein files could be presented from either perspective, but their most potent impact has been the cultural division they expose between an elite class...
When critics suggest potential illnesses President Donald Trump might have, they point to evidence of a possible ailment. They notice bruises on his hands, swollen joints, dozing off during televised meetings, and his rambling, disjointed speeches. However, they never identify the one hallmark of a serious illness that he...
At the end of November, President Donald Trump permanently paused migration from nations he described as ‘Third World Countries.’” Then he followed up by halting all asylum claims, pausing visa issuances for Afghan nationals, and in December, he began calling Somalis “garbage.” He particularly targeted Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from...