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Republican analyst Juan Williams is arguing that Republicans are retiring from Congress at historic levels because President Donald Trump is increasingly unpopular.“You’d quit, too,” Williams wrote in his recent editorial for The Hill. Breaking down the logic of the many Republican legislators with whom he has spoken, Williams described it as dozens of them independently picking “Option One” from the list: “Option One: They can quit. Option Two: They can keep silent on alarming polls showing low public approval for Trump and his Republican Party as the midterms approach. Option Three: Accept that there is a

Estimates of President Donald Trump's net worth vary, but according to Fortune, it was $7.3 billion in late 2025 — a major increase from $3.9 billion in 2024. Bloomberg News, on January 20, estimated the Trump family's net worth to be around $6.8 billion.Trump, Time reports, has found a variety of ways to add to his wealth since returning to the White House, from Trump Media & Technology Group to cryptocurrencies and Trump-branded merchandise.In a

President Donald Trump’s latest rant contradicts the White House’s version of events surrounding his continued focus on renaming New York’s Penn Station “Trump Station” — as the president also continues to appear to tie funding for the already-approved New York-New Jersey Gateway Tunnel project to a potential name change.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt last week specifically stated that President Trump “floated” renaming Penn Station (and Washington-Dulles Airport) with Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, as

Hailing it as a "truly heartening" decision while Donald Trump acts with almost total impunity, legal expert Steven Lubet commended the disbarment recommendation against a MAGA lawyer for taking part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.Writing for The Hill on Monday, Lubet, a professor emeritus at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law and prolific writer on the subject of legal ethics, relayed the story of Georgia-based lawyer, William McCall Calhoun Jr. Last month, Lubet explained, the state's nine Supreme Court Justices, including eight Republican appointees, unanimously issued an opinion that Calhoun must be disbarred for h

Donald Trump and his administration are increasingly being held back from their broader goals by everyday citizens in court, and according to one former federal judge speaking with Salon, these rebukes are an "unprecedented" change in legal norms.In the modern American legal system, grand juries are a special sort of jury convened to either approve or deny a prosecutor's request to bring significant criminal charges against certain parties. Grand juries notably voted to indict Trump on criminal charges in the four legal cases he faced prior to his reelection. In general, legal experts have s

President Donald Trump's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids during his second presidency are drawing vehement criticism from some Americans with law enforcement and national security resumés, including former U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, ex-U.S. Attorney General

Donald Trump's "constant controversy and chaos" is doing real damage to the U.S. and the world, even when he backs down, according to a Monday analysis from Politico, with his hectic leadership now further running the risk of sending his once-loyal GOP voters running for the hills.Throughout the report, Politico broke down Trump's second-term tendency to promote wild and incendiary ideas or policy proposals, often in the

Conservatives on Twitter/X, the social media platform purchased by Elon Musk in 2022, are lashing out at President Donald Trump supporters for defending him amidst the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.“Epstein Files show Epstein was EXTREMELY concerned about Virginia Giuffre, who was quite vocal in telling the world she was in no way suicidal, but found dead shortly later,” wrote conservative pundit Breck Worsham, also known as The Patriotic Blonde. Worsham quoted an Epstein email saying, “Before I call Trump. With regard Virginia... [are] there any other alternatives?"A user named Robert

Conservative columnist and historian Max Boot explained on Monday that President Donald Trump has “become toxic” even among right-wing movements in Europe analogous to his MAGA movement in the United States.“I've been covering Trump's unprecedented interference in foreign elections, and what strikes me most is how brazen it's become,” Boot wrote for The Washington Post. “We're not talking about subtle diplomatic preferences here—Trump is issuing formal endorsements in other countries' elections as if they were Republican primaries back home.”After listing t

The United States is facing a major test of American democracy as experts warn that the Trump administration is dragging the nation into “some form of autocracy,” NPR reports.The U.S. has already crossed the threshold and become an “electoral autocracy,” Staffan I. Lindberg, the director of Sweden’s V-Dem Institute, told NPR. “I would argue that the United States in 2025-26 has slid into a mild form of competitive authoritarianism,” said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University and co-author of How Democracies Die. “I think it’s