The Most Corrupt U.S. Presidency Ever: A Video Roundup
Our late-September collection of clips on the MAGA man's monetization mission| The UnPopulist
Our late-September collection of clips on the MAGA man's monetization mission| The UnPopulist
Human rights, peaceful co-existence, and robust commerce might be casualties| The UnPopulist
Liberalism’s real failure is that it assumes far too sunny a view of human nature, three recent books suggest| The UnPopulist
Our mission to defend liberal democracy from authoritarian assaults is even more relevant and urgent now than when we launched| The UnPopulist
The Trump administration keeps producing layered cakes of executive abuse, with one form of abuse on top of another, all the way down.| The UnPopulist
He is rapidly consolidating his power so that no one can even challenge his authoritarian takeover| The UnPopulist
Surprising absolutely no one, Trump administration “border czar” Tom Homan was recorded last September on camera by undercover FBI agents accepting a cash bribe in return for future favors.| The UnPopulist
Our mid-September selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law| The UnPopulist
The United States military has traditionally been composed of citizen soldiers drawn from all groups and political affiliations.| The UnPopulist
It is beginning to regard the U.S. as a threat to its sovereignty and is strengthening ties with China| The UnPopulist
In yet another bizarre display of presidential play-acting, Donald Trump announced that he is designating “Antifa,” which is not an organization, as a “terrorist organization,” which is not a designation that exists for domestic groups under American law.| The UnPopulist
In a monologue, comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel derided conservatives for exploiting the shooting of Charlie Kirk to “score political points.” They immediately proved him right, using threats from the FCC to get Kimmel’s show pulled from the air in an open exercise of government censorship.| The UnPopulist
Donald Trump has been trying to lay the groundwork for a purge of his political opposition by blaming criticism of his administration for a supposed wave of left-wing violence.| The UnPopulist
The contrast between their and his behavior is a measure of America's moral descent| The UnPopulist
Donald Trump’s lawless mass deportation campaign is turning America into the kind of “Third World” country foreigners from “First World” nations fear to visit.| The UnPopulist
As part of the administration’s attempt to use the shooting of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to suppress dissent, Attorney General Pam Bondi threatened to “go after” Kirk’s critics for engaging in “hate speech.” The irony is that criminalizing so-called “hate speech” was an old crusade of the left.| The UnPopulist
Exploiting the shooting of Charlie Kirk by a gunman whose motives are still unclear and incoherent, the Trump administration is now announcing that they are preparing a broad crackdown to punish political dissent.| The UnPopulist
The second Trump administration will be remembered for some of the most spectacular official corruption in our nation’s history—and that’s saying something.| The UnPopulist
Our rapid-fire communication technologies may be overwhelming our capacity to deliberate and empathize, two new books suggest| The UnPopulist
Donald Trump asked Federal Housing Finance Agency head Bill Pulte to abuse his power by digging up accusations against Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, providing Trump with a fake excuse to fire her “for cause.” And Pulte obliged by rummaging through her mortgage applications and cooking up something.| www.theunpopulist.net
The president can only fire the heads of independent agencies “for cause”—for actual, substantial misconduct in office. The Supreme Court has already let Donald Trump erode this protection, but the justices have hinted that they would preserve it for the Federal Reserve.| 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
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
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
