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Former US President Barack Obama speaks after receiving the 2024 Sylvanus Thayer Award from the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, on Sept. 19, 2024. (Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Obama Challenges Trump’s Remap Power Grab

From the Left / Clarence Page /

Friends who are frustrated by the current White House regime still ask me, “Where is Obama?” As if he might miraculously arise again in the political skies like Mighty Mouse singing, “Here I come to save the day!”

Dream on, I point out. Having served two full terms, Obama has maxed out of his constitutional eligibility.

But, behind the...Read more

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These Are Terrible Times, To Be Sure. But We Will Triumph

From the Left / Robert B. Reich /

A little over a week ago more than 7 million of us poured into the streets to reject Trump’s dictatorship. That’s more than 2% of the adult population of the United States.

Historical studies suggest that 3.5% of a population engaged in sustained nonviolent resistance can topple even the most brutal dictatorships — such as Chile under ...Read more

Chutzpah!

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

What do you say about a guy who is demanding that his current legal team pay his old legal team -- one and the same -- for getting him out on the biggest technicality of all time? And he offers to give your and my money to his favorite charity -- or maybe the ballroom ...

Donald Trump is demanding that the Department of Justice (that's his ...Read more

Trump Is Every Day. The Resistance Is Every Few Months. Wonder Why He's Winning?

From the Left / Ted Rall /

Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump "No Kings" demonstrators marched on Saturday through the streets of thousands of American cities, to expose general opposition to the ruling Republican Party and to express outrage over their various policies.

Like its predecessors, this effort will have zero effect.

Performative protests like "No Kings," ...Read more

My Sister Said Yes to Montana and Helped Me Say Yes to Myself

I would not make the trip by myself, but I also would not pass up the opportunity. I texted my sister Erica, who lives on the West Coast, "How do you feel about Montana?"

Let me back up. When I started writing about conservationists protecting our American landscapes, I knew travel was part of the package. I enjoyed walk-and-talk interviews in ...Read more

Traditional Revolution

From the Left / Marc Munroe Dion /

When I worked as a reporter, I wouldn't join a political party or sign a petition. I was an "unenrolled" voter. I wouldn't have a bumper sticker on my truck. I never donated to any candidate. I didn't attend marches or protests unless an editor sent me. It's not a big deal. It's just the job.

I'm a newspaper columnist now, and my opinion is ...Read more

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 21: The facade of the East Wing of the White House is demolished by work crews on October 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. The demolition is part of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to build a ballroom reportedly costing $250 million on the eastern side of the White House. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

It’s Our House – and Trump’s Demolishing It!

From the Left / Bill Press /

Covering the White House, I believe, is the best job in journalism. For nine years – eight under President Obama and one under Trump – I was at the White House every day for the daily briefing.

Even though it was part of my daily routine, I never walked up that West Wing driveway without getting goosebumps. For me, it was like entering the ...Read more

We Need Billionaires Who Do the Right Thing

From the Left / Froma Harrop /

I don't get politicians who rail against billionaires. There are all kinds of billionaires. Many got rich inventing products we hold dear. Others got rich doing societally useless things like inventing crypto meme coins. And some made their pile through corruption and crime.

This is about the good ones.

Hamdi Ulukaya made billions founding ...Read more

Pooping on the Parade

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

If he can do it, I can say it. But why did he do it? You know why? The same reason your kids would -- ridicule; mockery. A visible showing of contempt for a significant percentage of what we used to call your fellow Americans.

Can you imagine Ronald Reagan doing it?

I remember speaking at a panel with Newt Gingrich right after his revolution...Read more

Louisiana's Black Voting Power Is On the Line in Redistricting Fight

From the Left / ACLU /

When Louisiana finally won a second majority-Black district in 2024, I felt a weight lift from my shoulders. For decades, Black voters like me knew that having only one voting district where we could be heard was not enough to reflect a third of the state's population. So when the state gained a second seat, I thought of those who fought ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and President of Argentina Javier Milei in the Cabinet Room at the White House on Oct. 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/TNS)

Hegseth’s New Rules for Journalists Won't Make America Safer

From the Left / Clarence Page /

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has done it again.

As his latest outrage touched off an unprecedented revolt by almost every media outlet covering the Pentagon, I once again was reminded of my own Army days when we called it the “five-sided funhouse,” although not within earshot of the “brass,” our superior officers.

The headquarters of...Read more

Your Questions Answered: How To Push Back on Abuses of Power

From the Left / ACLU /

In his first nine months back in office, President Donald Trump has abused his power to attack our neighbors and communities, suppress free speech and create a climate of fear. The president has deployed military troops and federal agents into our cities. He has threatened nonprofit organizations, universities and political opponents who don't ...Read more

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Justice, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Pam Bondi Faces Critics, 'Burns' Them

From the Left / Clarence Page /

A lot of political figures are understandably nervous about facing a Senate committee probe.

Not Pam Bondi.

In more than four hours of testimony Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee, she responded to the most polite questions with the air of contempt worthy of her boss, President Trump, who tends to react to the idea of accountability as ...Read more

Trump Is Abusing His Power To Build a Dangerous National Policing Force

From the Left / ACLU /

The Trump administration continues to escalate its deployment of military troops and federal law enforcement to cities across the country. We are witnessing the build-out of a national paramilitary policing force that could be used to intimidate people and consolidate President Donald Trump's power.

This week alone, the administration placed ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, greets U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth as he arrives to speak to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025, in Quantico, Virginia. In an unprecedented gathering, almost 800 generals, admirals and their senior enlisted leaders have been ordered into one location from around the world on short notice. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/TNS)

Trump Faces His Generals

From the Left / Clarence Page /

When President Donald Trump dropped the bizarre suggestion last week that the military should use American cities as “training grounds” to fight what he called “an enemy within,” it sounded almost like old news.

After all, Trump has talked like this for years. "Don't take him literally," some would say. Or, that's just Trump being Trump...Read more

What's at Stake as the Supreme Court Takes Up Transgender Sports Bans

From the Left / ACLU /

Over the last five years, politicians across the country have targeted transgender people and our families. They've banned our health care, censored our speech and made schools less safe for transgender students. One of the most consistent focus areas for many of these politicians has been the rights of transgender student athletes, ...Read more

Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA, speaks before former President Donald Trump's arrival during a Turning Point USA Believers Summit conference at the Palm Beach Convention Center on July 26, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/TNS)

The Conflict Entrepreneurs Behind Our Broken Politics

From the Left / Clarence Page /

I have long become accustomed to what I call the "BTMF” reflex whenever a great, newsmaking calamity or outrage happens.

That’s short for “Blame the media first.”

As a long-tenured journalist, I try not to take it personally. Yet sometimes the complainers have a point, and we in the news business would do a better job and provide ...Read more

Welcome to the World of MAGA Machismo, Where Muscles Trump Brains

From the Left / Dick Polman /

Ladies and gentleman, here is your United States Senate, then and now:

Sen. Daniel Webster on March 7, 1850: “It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States (with) a just sense of its own dignity, and its own high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks with confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic, and healing ...Read more

Trump and his lawyers think he can get away with anything. It's outlandish.

From the Left / Ruth Marcus /

WASHINGTON -- "The king can do no wrong." That is the ancient legal maxim used to explain why a sovereign should not be held to account for misdeeds. President Trump and his lawyers are now making arguments that make this legal doctrine look wimpy. Their vision boils down to: The king can do whatever wrong he damn pleases, and there's nothing ...Read more

 

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