Analysis

No one, except perhaps the authors of Project 2025, could have predicted that the so-called guardrails of democracy were made of papier-mâché, that this country could so quickly be teetering on the precipice of autocracy.

The Trump administration is quietly creating offshore detention, disappearance, and exile—and Americans could soon be next.

Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to transport detainees from the US to El Salvador.

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed directives targeting two former government officials who criticized him during his first term, calling one of them a traitor and saying they should be investigated.

The “intolerable risk to press freedom” posed by device searches at the border.

The courts, the institutions, the protections—they’re not failing. They’re being dismantled.

By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.

Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.

A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech.

Local officials and business moguls are also turning to lawsuits or the threat of them to silence the press.

What happens when a country stops pretending to care about democracy and just lets the billionaires run wild? Look no further than Putin’s Russia — a place where wealth buys protection, loyalty buys power, and corruption isn’t hidden, it’s institutionalized.

How Signal, Silence, and Schedule F Are Killing Government Transparency

If you relied on articles and broadcasts from the legacy national news media during early 2025, you wouldn’t know the extent of grassroots action prompted by this discontent.

TikTok’s fate still remains unclear, but if it stays in the U.S., it won’t be free—it’ll be bound to Donald Trump, giving him and the GOP a propaganda machine like no other.