The DOJ Is So Badly Decimated It's as if Trump Dropped an 'Atomic Bomb' On It
A preeminent conservative legal scholar at LibCon2025 agreed with his fellow panelists about what this administration has done to the agency| The UnPopulist
A preeminent conservative legal scholar at LibCon2025 agreed with his fellow panelists about what this administration has done to the agency| The UnPopulist
As Trump's troops rolled into the nation's capital, attendees at our second annual convening at the Watergate Hotel left recharged and determined to fight authoritarianism| The UnPopulist
Our system has depended on norms, not laws, against the abuse of executive power and those are outside the scope of the judicial branch| The UnPopulist
The brave Russian dissident who Putin poisoned and imprisoned stood tall and condemned tyrants, emphasizing that gatherings like LibCon2025 are essential to defeating them| www.theunpopulist.net
We should take inspiration from Frederick Douglass and strive for a broad alliance| The UnPopulist
A roundup of The UnPopulist’s work in the first six months of Trump’s second term| The UnPopulist
Donald Trump used a late-night attack on a former DOGE employee as his pretext to take over the D.C.| The UnPopulist
Donald Trump is abusing every tool of the vast power of the federal government in his attempt to make the universities personally subservient to him.| The UnPopulist
The Constitution mandates a census every 10 years to count all “persons” in the United States and assign representation in Congress.| The UnPopulist
Nothing captures the imperial quality of the Trump administration better than having the vast apparatus of a continent-spanning government harness to change the course of a river—all in service of the personal amusement of one of the emperor’s favorites.| The UnPopulist
Donald Trump has promised retribution against his political opponents, and now his congressional allies are helping him deliver it, pushing for an investigation into former Special Counsel Jack Smith to punish him for investigating Trump’s crimes.| The UnPopulist
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was notorious for firing officials—or sending them to the gulag—for delivering bad news about the failure of his policies.| The UnPopulist
There are new stories of detainees being abused in ICE detention, as well as at least one minor being held at an adult detention camp in Florida called “Alligator Alcatraz”—a name chosen to emphasize the cruelty of the facility.| The UnPopulist
He wants to give Protestant America the right to disempower other faiths and ethnic groups so that Israel can do the same| The UnPopulist
Our early-August collection of clips on Trumpworld's attempts to honor Confederate figures, whitewash history, and provide state funding for an AI service that went on an antisemitic spree| The UnPopulist
Want to do something to resist authoritarianism? Sign up now to gather intellectual ammunition, show solidarity, and make connections with other freedom fighters| www.theunpopulist.net
It is a deeply cynical move that would have shocked and appalled the Founders| www.theunpopulist.net
Exotic cocktail ingredients are about to become pricier or disappear from the market altogether| www.theunpopulist.net
But he is an embodiment of America’s essential goodness and promise| www.theunpopulist.net
We need a confederation of liberal democracies across continents to uphold a multilateral, rights-based global system| www.theunpopulist.net
Our early-August selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law| The UnPopulist
Yet many who claim to be concerned about academic freedom are choosing silence or appeasement in the face of an authoritarian shakedown| The UnPopulist
One of the triumphs of late 19th-century politics was the reform of the civil service to eliminate the politicized “spoils system” and establish standards of competence and professional integrity.| www.theunpopulist.net
China’s attempt to designate the new Dalai Lama in violation of longstanding Tibetan tradition is the most visible example of this trend| www.theunpopulist.net
A Fourth of July revisiting of a Founding Father’s family connection to the Salem Witch Trials| www.theunpopulist.net
Voters need to defeat him or he could get away with abusing the Alien Enemies Act meant for wartime| www.theunpopulist.net
We are past the point of crisis and have entered an era when our political disputes will be settled by the raw exercise of power, not the law| www.theunpopulist.net
Immigration helps the country become freer and more prosperous and restrictionism is doing the opposite| www.theunpopulist.net
Courts may stop the president this time but Congress also needs to act to stop future abuses| www.theunpopulist.net
Donald Trump's quest to concentrate unprecedented levels of power began on Day One and hasn't stopped| www.theunpopulist.net
To get immigrants, we will need a police state that respects the rights of no one| www.theunpopulist.net
Its combination of tariffs, fiscal profligacy, and easy money has the makings of a bigly economic crash| www.theunpopulist.net
His repudiation of due process, civil rights, and basic rules of justice means there is no check on who he can disappear next, citizen or noncitizen| www.theunpopulist.net
Though the Supreme Court handed the administration a defeat, the fight to bring him home should mobilize a broader resistance| www.theunpopulist.net
Congress needs to take back the powers it has ceded to prevent presidents from starting trade wars| www.theunpopulist.net
The crackdown is busting the Constitution along with immigrants| www.theunpopulist.net
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Their flagship publication, The Free Press’, failure to correct an error-filled defense of George Floyd’s killer demonstrates that they are just another partisan tribe| www.theunpopulist.net
