Is the President Now Above the Law?
SCOTUS ruled the president has near-absolute immunity. On July 1st, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that the president is immune
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This Is Why Trump Is Guilty of 34 Felonies
Despite what the former president and his supporters say, New York law is clear. And Trump broke it.
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Trump Supporters Have Less Interpersonal Warmth and More Cognitive Rigidity
Where someone is on the political spectrum has a lot to do with their psychological profile.
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Did Trump Win the Trade War with China? The Data Says No
Trump blamed bad trade deals for the loss of American jobs, so he waged a trade war with China. It didn’t go well.
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The New Texas Voting Bill Is an Alarming Assault on Democracy
Texas Republicans overhauled state election laws, adding unnecessary barriers for marginalized voters and undermining the basic tenets of democracy.
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“The Father of the American Revolution” Was an Unlikely Supporter of Universal Basic Income
Thomas Paine, the intellectual architect of the American Revolution, made a logical and impassioned plea for providing everyone with guaranteed income.
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George Washington Warned Us About Political Parties—We Didn’t Listen
With a 3rd presidential term on the horizon, Washington instead chose to recede from public life and to issue a dire warning for his fledgling country.
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Ayn Rand Was a Dangerous, Pseudo-Intellectual Piece of Garbage
Her philosophy has been roundly discredited, yet she still wields tremendous influence on virtually all aspects of society.
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Isaac Asimov Was Dead Right About Our Cult of Ignorance
“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” ― Issac Asimov
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The President Isn’t Supposed to Be This Powerful
The 3 branches of the US government were designed to keep the power of the other 2 in check. However, the president’s power has slowly grown, giving one person far more control of the government than originally intended.
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Naïve Realism Explains Why Politics Is So Polarized and Toxic
Naïve realism is the psychological condition in which people believe they see the world objectively and their opponents as uneducated, biased, or illogical.
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Trump’s Pardons Are the Most Corrupt of Any President
Pardons have been controversial from the beginning. But in the last few decades, presidents have used them for political and
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Trump Is the Reason for States’ Rights
Trump’s tumultuous presidency reminded us yet again why the rights of the states need to be protected against an encroaching federal government. In only 4 years, the states sued his administration 138 times, far more than any other president.
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Ratf**ked: How the ‘Unitary Executive’ Can Manipulate an Election
Ratf**k: “a term used by Richard Nixon’s campaign insiders to describe electoral fraud and dirty tricks they used against their opponents.”
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How Trump Buried the National Debate With Logical Fallacies
Donald Trump is an expert at making people’s heads spin by employing several well-known logical fallacies. Because of him, debate
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Dissecting Fascism: A Warning
“We are not required to believe that fascist movements can only come to power in an exact replay of the scenario of Mussolini and Hitler. All that is required to fit our model is polarization, deadlock, mass mobilization against internal and external enemies, and complicity by existing elites.”
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