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Big, Beautiful Bromance Breaks Up — Live On Social Media

From the Left / Clarence Page / Jun 09, 2025

For those who think government should be run like a business, the messy social media spat that played out last week between President Trump and billionaire CEO Elon Musk suggested that business could be doing a lot better.

That may help to explain why shares of Musk’s company Tesla dropped 14 ...Read more

The Supreme Court Cases To Watch

From the Left / ACLU / Jun 02, 2025

The Supreme Court's docket this term includes many of the complex issues American society is currently facing, including immigration, free speech, religious liberty, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.

The ACLU has served as counsel or filed friend-of-the-court briefs in all of the cases addressing these hot-button issues. In addition to its ...Read more

Hey, guys, Democrats want your votes. They really do

From the Left / Clarence Page / Jun 02, 2025

Where are the Democrats? What are they doing about the damage President Trump is doing to ... everything?

I hear that a lot from my liberal friends these days, ever since Trump swept the battleground states six months ago and proceeded to dismantle government as we Americans used to know it.

With the fury of a man who is trying to make up for ...Read more

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

From the Left / Dick Polman / Nov 16, 2023

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 / Oct 25, 2019

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