One of the stunning developments in 2025 was the capitulation of major law firms to the unlawful threats made by Donald Trump. On March 14, 2025, Trump issued Executive order 14237, “Addressing Risks from Paul Weiss,” suspending the firm’s lawyers’ security...
(The quote paraphrases the GOP “leader” who is two heartbeats away from the Presidency.) Previously, Trump, GOP politicians and news outlets on “the right” repeatedly claimed that Democrats were “radical left lunatics” who were “demonic.” Many people who...
Brendan Carr, as FCC Chair, made threats against ABC relating to the broadcast of Jimmy Kimmel’s show. Legal experts, free speech advocates, public officials, and the ACLU have argued that Carr’s conduct violates the First Amendment by silencing the company (and...
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, accusations flew furiously from “the right” that “left wing radicals” were responsible. And, it might indeed turn out that Sullivan had been radicalized by leftist rhetoric, most likely on increasingly toxic and unhinged social...
As a member of a teenage Republican club in the early 1960s, I met several “Young Americans for Freedom” (“Yaffers”) and John Birch Society members. The JBS opposed the civil rights movement and believed the U.S. was in dangerous “moral decline,” railing against...
