Trump’s War on Our Rights

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What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers

By Instituting the Insurrection Act, Trump Has Launched an Attack on Our Civil Liberties

Let us be plain. Minneapolis is now an occupied city, as much as Paris or Prague once was. Armed and anonymous agents of the government are rousting people seemingly at random, abusing them when they do, demanding to see their papers, and shooting them in the face.

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Pete Hegseth and the War on Canadian Sex Toys

A package of "pornographic materials and or devices" from Canada made its way to a U.S. naval base in Bahrain. Needless to say, things didn't work out.

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Why Stop at ICE? Let's Dismantle the Entire Department of Homeland Security.

The DHS is an extraneous agency, born out of tragedy and political opportunism. Right from its name, with all the echoes of shiny boots that come with the word homeland, the organization has just been sitting there for years, waiting for an eager president to weaponize it as his personal police force.

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Harmeet Dhillon Is More Interested in Fighting "Woke Ideology" Than Protecting American Citizens

Harmeet Dhillon is one of the more underrated vandals with whom this administration has salted the executive agencies. As assistant attorney general for civil rights—pause here for raucous laughter—Dhillon has proved to be everything the president could want in that position in that she has no intention of doing the job she was appointed to do.

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Maybe, Just Maybe, Universities Shouldn't Bend to MAGA's Whims

It should be obvious to the very smart people who run our universities that rolling over to the inchoate bellowing of the forces of reaction comes at a terrible cost—in credibility, in self-respect, and, increasingly, in money as well.

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