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Lawyers are notorious for disagreeing with each other on a wide range of issues, but a surprisingly large majority share one view — President Donald Trump’s behavior during his second term poses a grave threat to American law and order.“At the lower-court level, judges have repeatedly ruled in ways intended to check Trump, most notably when it comes to violating civil and constitutional rights in pursuit of his indiscriminate immigration dragnet,” the Los Angeles Times’ political columnist Mark Z. Barabak wrote on Sunday. “The tendency to slow-walk his administration’s response to those rulings — and ignore others that Trump thinks he ca

President Donald Trump is facing heated criticism for engaging in over 3,600 stock trades during the first quarter of 2026 — but a powerful senator is arguing that Trump’s actions are merely an egregious symptom of a much more systemic problem.“Over 80 percent of Americans believe that their elected officials are engaged in some type of corruption, and over 80 percent want to see bans on stock trading — not just in Congress, but across the country,” Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) told The Bulwark’s John Avlon in an interview that dropped on Sunday. The interview was featured in an arti

Pondering our nation’s upcoming Memorial Day, it’s hard not to get emotional. I still get a lump in my throat when we stand for the national anthem at Bears home games. I fidget, look down, or look away so people don’t see my tears and think I’m loopy. But when I hear ‘perilous fight,’ and ‘proof through the night’ I really do see the old yellowed flag: 15 stars and stripes, tattered and fra

President Trump's decision to postpone a voluntary artificial intelligence testing executive order has exposed a deepening divide within his administration over governance philosophy and decision-making authority. The postponement, announced shortly before a scheduled White House signing ceremony, revealed fundamental disagreements between officials and highlighted how Silicon Valley figures continue to wield outsized influence over administration policy.The delay underscores a pattern of internal friction that has increasingly characterized Trump's second term. The president told reporters

President Donald Trump keeps clashing with the Supreme Court, even though he repeatedly gives them exactly what they want.“With the court preparing to issue major rulings in the coming weeks that will determine the fate of key aspects of the president’s agenda, Mr. Trump has vacillated between combative and conciliatory in his treatment of the justices,” The New York Times reported on Sunday. “He has seemed ever aware and at times resentful of the critical role the justices play in determining the lawfulness of his policies, with the court representing perhaps the one force in American government truly able to thwart his agenda. At the heart of the tension: a presid

I keep hearing that one of America’s biggest problems is we’re “divided and polarized.” For example, New York Times columnist David French: “We’ve known for a long time that America is deeply polarized, and we’ve known the problem is only getting worse.”This is bull----. The problem is not that we’re divided and polarized. The problem is that a significant portion of America is buying Trump’s violent, hateful, lawless crap. Some of those buying it are white supremacists. Others are conservative fundamentalist Christian

Margaret Sullivan, a Guardian US columnist, argues that mainstream media has largely normalized the extraordinary corruption and chaos of President Trump's second term, treating scandals as routine political theater rather than threats to democratic governance.Sullivan catalogs Trump's disturbing behavior and policies: his admission that he's not thinking "even a little bit" about Americans' personal finances during Iran negotiations, his apparent drowsiness in meet

Dr. Rob Davidson, who heads the Committee to Protect Healthcare and has administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, expressed concern about President Donald Trump's public statements regarding the screening test. Davidson appeared on former CNN reporter Jim Acosta's show this week to discuss Trump's repeated claims that he has passed the assessment multiple times.According to Davidson, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is not a

The United States and the Republic of China (the official name for Taiwan) — one of the world’s most vibrant and functional democracies — have had a formal defense relationship since 1955. Last week, Donald Trump — who’s been withholding since last year two shipments totaling $25 billion worth of US military hardware Taiwan has purchased — said that relationship is now a “bargaining chip” to get what he, his oligarch friends, and his family want from China.America was founded on the idea that democracy — a form

This week, the president has hit the floor in his support. A new Reuters poll found that Donald Trump's approval is 35 percent. A new Q poll found that it's 33 percent. Nate Silver said it's lower than Joe Biden's was after the Disaster Deba