1+ hour, 54+ min ago  (657+ words) Late on the Fourth of July, while the rest of the nation celebrated 250 years of messy, complicated, sometimes divisive striving toward a more perfect union, the Trump White House quietly dropped a 162-page political hit piece aimed at the country's…...

3+ hour, 8+ min ago  (745+ words) contrariannews. org What MAGA Could Learn About America From Pope Leo As a president second to none in blasphemous self-depiction and besotted by venomous white Christian nationalism, Donald Trump and his MAGA authoritarian enablers have attempted to supplant separation of…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1030+ words) contrariannews. org Are You Anti-Fascist? Then MAGA Would Call You a Domestic Terrorist But so were the American Revolutionaries. Earlier this month, eight anti-ICE protestors were sentenced to a combined 450 years in federal prison after being convicted of "providing material…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (373+ words) As for the judiciary, the Constitution gives very limited original jurisdiction to the Supreme Court and gives Congress the power to decide what additional jurisdiction or roles it should have, including the power to decide the size of the Supreme…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (464+ words) The Trump administration's reported push to build a master list of foreign intelligence threats arrives dressed in the old language of Washington reform: better data, better sharing, better coordination, and fewer gaps between the FBI, CIA, and the rest of…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (140+ words) Plainly, Larry David is consumed with our current political nightmare. Throughout the series, he effectively drills down on a contradiction at the heart of our contemporary democracy: We lionize the Founding Fathers and fetishize our history, even as we recognize…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (523+ words) I also explained the meaning of this ruling on MSNow right after it came down. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that the men who drafted the 14th Amendment "extended that promise to every free-born person in this land." Trump tried…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (793+ words) Is the Great American State Fair not filling you with semiquincentennial pride? Worried the new golden eagle on the front of the White House feels a little too, what is it, Reichstag-y? Concerned your July 4 barbecue will be accompanied by…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (480+ words) Frederick Douglass wrote those words in 1856, but they could easily have been written this morning. I know I'm not alone in noting the hypocrisy of a people celebrating our nation's founding principles at a time when those principles are eroding…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (460+ words) The language about human rights " "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" " has been especially enduring. By avoiding too much precision about what that means, Jefferson offered all a slice of the American pie. But to call these truths "self-evident…...