From Adams to Trump: Presidents push the boundaries of the First Amendment

With President Donald Trump labeling the media “the enemy” and threatening broadcast licenses and political enemies, First Amendment scholars are asking:  Is the First Amendment under more ...

Trump Says Americans Are Doing Great, Even as Views on the Economy Sour

President Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania was meant to alleviate concerns about affordability. But he kept wandering off ...
CNN

Fact check: 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan

President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his Tuesday speech to US service members on an aircraft carrier stationed in Japan. Trump repeated his regular lie that he won the 2020 election ...
Salon

An Ugly American berates the United Nations — and shames the rest of us

President Donald Trump is a master performer. He is a symbol and character more than a man, a type of performance artist. But he is not the late Andy Kaufman playing Tony Clifton as Donald Trump, who ...
The Conversation

Trump’s tragedy: the US becomes an autocracy and the presidency, a dictatorship

Emma Shortis is Director of International and Security Affairs at The Australia Institute, an independent think tank. […]we took the freedom of speech away. We should use some of these dangerous ...