Category: Politics
Under Trump and MAGA, the District of Columbia Should Go Back to Where It Came From
by Fredrick Kunkle | May 20, 2025 | PoliticsBy Before things get any worse under President Trump, Washingtonians ought to pack up and move, and not just household by household. Trump and the Republican-led Congress pose such a threat to the District of Columbia’s roughly 700,000 residents that the city should push for a return to Maryland, which long ago ceded land for […]
America’s Slide into Authoritarianism, as seen from TED 2025
by Dave Troy | Apr 16, 2025 | Current Archives, PoliticsHistorians (if they exist in the future and any records of this period survive) will note this month as one where the United States slipped fully into authoritarianism. Incompetence, luck, and real leadership may yet intervene, but we have already crossed several “red lines” warned about by experts. At the TED conference this past week […]
Tariffs Expose Rifts in Fragile MAGA Coalition
by Dave Troy | Apr 7, 2025 | Current Archives, EconomyAs the world continues to digest Donald Trump’s haphazard announcement of wide-ranging tariffs that threaten to upend the global economy, reshape capital markets, and decimate individual retirement accounts, one vulnerability is becoming clear: the MAGA coalition is not united, and contains exploitable fault lines. Voices as diverse as Mike Pence and Elon Musk have expressed […]
Democracy Not Piracy — Opposing Narratives for ’26 & ’28
by Mark Green | Apr 2, 2025 | PoliticsApproaching the national “Hands Off” Rallies on Saturday, April 5 and then the “First 100 Days” benchmark, Americans deserve a theory-of-the-case to stop Donald Trump from ruining our lives and rights. I. Abraham Lincoln is best remembered of course for winning the Civil War. That epic event however has obscured a different enduring success of […]
The Four Memos Quietly Rocking Washington
by Dave Troy | Mar 4, 2025 | Current Archives, PoliticsOn February 5, America 2.0 broke news of two memos created by an anonymous group of authors formerly connected to the Neoreactionary or “Dark Enlightenment” movement. Since then, they have created a stir and have been picked up by a variety of outlets, most immediately by Byline Times. Other outlets have also amplified the documents substantially, while making inaccurate […]
Bad Faith Documentary
