Zack Beauchamp

The White House strategy demands we defend alleged criminals and those with unpopular views.

America is still the most influential country in the world, for better or worse.

Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB director, wrote an essay in 2022 that reads like a blueprint for what was to come.

Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan to keep democracy intact.

Philosopher Richard Rorty predicted that someone like Trump might bring back public cruelty.

Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.

The order to shut off federal grants reveals a vision of the presidency at odds with basic democratic principles.

Elon Musk’s Nazi trolling exposes the collapse of America’s guardrails against some of history’s foulest ideas.

The executive orders expose the strategy: claim to be defending democracy as you dismantle it.

Amid the flurry of executive orders on Day 1, these could prove the most damaging to the republic’s health.