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Inside the Authoritarian Mindset: A Map of Its Hidden Partners
From motivated reasoning to moral disgust, the traits that travel together.
Graham Baughman
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Donald J. Trump, 79, Remembered for His Greatest Grift: The Presidency
Survived by Truth Social, Unpaid Legal Bills, and a Buffet of Cold McDonald’s Fries
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The DOGE That Ate SSA: Inside the Data Breach Waiting to Happen
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency put a Musk protégé with reported hacker ties in the chain of control over your Social Security data. Here’s why that’s a national security nightmare.
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Own Goal: Trump Is the Best Player on China’s Team
Beijing doesn’t need a perfect game plan if Washington keeps scoring on itself
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The Day the CDC Fell
and Why This Matters for Every American
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“Maybe We’d Like a Dictator”
Trump said the quiet part out loud. The National Guard is making it real.
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Nothing About Ukraine Without Ukraine
The Alaska Summit and the Selling of ‘Energetic Diplomacy’
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No Safe Harbor
How Miller‑Era Enforcement Punishes Asylum Seekers, Sidelines Felons, and Tests the Courts
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Quiet Quitting the Union: How Blue States Are Withdrawing Consent from Authoritarian Rule
When enforcement requires cooperation, refusal is power.
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Emergency Means Emergency — Unless It Doesn’t
The administration has pulled a thread that holds together emergency medicine and federal supremacy: it rescinded federal guidance that told hospitals, plainly, that EMTALA requires stabilizing care
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When Symbols Become Weapons: Russia’s Propaganda Victory and the Trump Administration’s Silence
Russian forces are flying U.S. flags into battle. Putin is reviving Soviet-era honors to needle Washington. These aren’t random stunts—they’re deliberate signals.
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BREAKING: We Finally Woke-ified Your Biscuits
Liberty’s Lens (Satire Edition) Subscribe Today’s Victory Lap Patriots, the day has come. Cracker Barrel—the last bastion of gravy-based freedom—has fallen to the woke mob. That’s right: your grandma’s chicken-fried nostalgia shack? It’s now a kombucha-forward, oat-milk-powered, pronoun-