Donald Trump just fired an experienced US attorney for refusing to prosecute two of Trump’s political enemies, New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey, for lack of evidence to support the charges.| www.theunpopulist.net
Our system has depended on norms, not laws, against the abuse of executive power and those are outside the scope of the judicial branch| www.theunpopulist.net
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| www.theunpopulist.net
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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
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
