Trump’s plan: stir up chaos, then have him restore order.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that unless the Republicans win the midterm elections, the election will have been stolen by the Democrats. He goes even further, claiming that a Democratic election is an existential threat to the nation.
Using taxpayer...
Money Alone Does Not Win Elections
Republican billionaires are pumping hundreds of millions into keeping Republicans in control of Congress, based on the assumption that more money wins elections. However, the past three presidential elections show that simply having more money than your opponent is not enough to win.
In the...
President Donald Trump and his Republican followers publicly campaign against mail-in voting, claiming it leads to massive fraud. In August 2020, Trump called mail-in voting “fraudulent” in a speech before the Council for National Policy. But he openly admitted his motivation when he posted on X in March 2020...
Politicians have repeatedly warned about our growing debt, to no avail. During Donald Trump’s first administration, Senator Rick Scott argued in 2019 that high debt levels could lead to a “sovereign debt crisis,” as the cost of servicing “the national debt will increase faster and faster.”
At the 2012 Democratic National...
This month, the U.S. reached its highest-ever debt level: $40 trillion. As a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), it now stands at about 123%. The Republican controlled House Budget Committee reported that our debt now exceeds the size of the U.S. economy.
It surpasses the historic peak following World War II,...
The Epstein files are the Achilles’ heel for Republican Senators this November, and their vote to confirm Todd Blanche as U.S. Attorney General is the Democrats’ populist arrow that could topple them.
Populist-oriented voters are up for grabs.
Although polls have repeatedly shown that most voters believe there is a wealth...
Congress can reverse America’s Wealth Disparity. But we must determine whether the public cares and, if so, whether they are aware that it affects their living conditions.
Do we have extreme disparity in wealth? Does anyone notice or care?
Everyone expects there to be differences in wealth and income among Americans,...
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...