Author’s Name Withheld As America approaches its 250th anniversary, we should be asking whether we are becoming what the founders risked everything to reject: a country where executive power and federal agents are used to intimidate dissent. “I think today would be a good day for Jonathan to be indicted.” That single sentence—an opinion about […]

Compliments of Scientific American Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship now before the Supreme Court isn’t merely unconstitutional—it rests on false premises. Across the Western Hemisphere, birthright citizenship is the democratic norm, and abandoning it would weaken America’s credibility, strain vital regional relationships, and undermine U.S. national security. Birthright citizenship is the simple and democratic […]

While Americans focus on wars, executive overreach, and constitutional crises, a quieter campaign is steadily weakening democracy’s foundations. By undermining science, expertise, education, and evidence-based reasoning, the administration is creating a society where facts become negotiable, confusion becomes permanent, and authoritarianism no longer needs to win arguments—it only needs to make truth impossible to find. […]

Yamiche Alcindor | Vogue The danger is not merely that politicians insult reporters. It is that millions of citizens have become accustomed to it. Authoritarianism thrives when people lose confidence in the distinction between truth and falsehood—and attacks on the press are often where that process begins. Every administration experiences tension with journalists. The relationship […]