Author: Jonathan Brown

Trump’s just demanded the removal of a portrait of himself from a Colorado government building—because it didn’t meet his personal standard of flattery. The portrait, ironically commissioned by Republican officials as a routine recognition of former presidents, became the subject of Trump’s ire after he claimed it was deliberately distorted by political enemies—most notably the…

Donald Trump’s latest power grab—his self-appointment to the board of Washington, D.C.’s National Theatre and his attack on the Smithsonian museums—is a clear attempt to reshape the narrative of American history to fit his nationalist agenda. Under the guise of “restoring truth and sanity” to American history, he is pushing a dangerous, authoritarian rewrite of…

This is not how a democracy treats people. This is not how America—the supposed beacon of freedom—should handle deportations. And yet, here we are, witnessing grotesque, dystopian images of Venezuelan deportees shackled, bent at 90-degree angles, heads forced down, paraded like subhuman criminals. This isn’t justice. This is humiliation. This is domination. This is a…