By Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz Last Tuesday Donald J. Trump gave his first address to a joint session of Congress. In it, he made repeated referrals to the impending 250th anniversary of the United States, which will take place nine years from now—assuming our democracy survives the current administration. After proclaiming that a “new . . .
Read MoreBy Betsy Golden Kellem Recent Trump administration characterizations of the news media as an “opposition party” have invited debate about the tension between liberty, security, and transparency. The President’s insistence that only sympathetic media outlets have the ability and the privilege to accurately represent his administration is shocking, and seems unprecedented in . . .
Read MoreBy Brian Allen Drake Today the Senate voted to confirm Scott Pruitt as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt is, to put it mildly, no fan of the organization that he now heads. He has filed a number of lawsuits against it in his capacity as Oklahoma’s attorney general and . . .
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