Category: Democracy Watch

Last month, University of Virginia President James E. Ryan was effectively forced to resign under direct pressure from Trump — a move that has sent shockwaves across the academic world. This wasn’t just a personnel decision. It was a political message, part of a calculated and intensifying campaign to bring American education under federal ideological…

Paramount Global, owner of CBS News, has agreed to pay $16 million to Donald Trump to settle a lawsuit widely considered frivolous. Trump claimed a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was deceptively edited to favor her—an allegation legal experts across the political spectrum dismissed as meritless and politically motivated. Despite the weakness of the…

Today is June 14, a day that marks two distinct milestones in American history: Flag Day—commemorating the adoption of the Stars and Stripes in 1777—and what activists across the country are now calling “No Kings Day.” Protesters gathered nationwide in response to Donald Trump’s efforts to entrench his personal power, staging demonstrations that drew sharp…

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…