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Jonathan Karl: The White House Chaos Is Worse This Time
Home Jonathan Karl: The White House Chaos Is Worse This Time By Tim Miller, and Jonathan Karl, Nov 18, 2025 The White House leaks may be more contained in Trump 2.0, but the slavish loyalists who POTUS has surrounded himself with do nothing to keep him within the bounds of the law, ethics, or decorum.…
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Letters from an American – November 17, 2025 (Monday) – by Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 17, 2025 (Monday) By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 17, 2025 President Donald J. Trump spent the weekend flooding social media with posts claiming that his economic policies are working and that his 34 felony convictions and the investigations into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russian operatives were illegitimate, and posting…
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Civil Discourse – Prosecuting Comey – Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance, Prosecuting Comey By Joyce Vance, Nov 13, 2025 Today, in Alexandria, Virginia, a senior federal judge from South Carolina, Cameron Currie, heard oral argument on consolidated motions filed by former FBI Director Jim Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James in their separate criminal prosecutions. Both of them filed…
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Civil Discourse – But his emails… – Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance, But His Emails… By Joyce Vance, Nov 12, 2025 Before he was elected in 2016, Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women by the pu**y and barging into rooms of partially dressed young pageant contestants. A jury concluded he assaulted E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room. So nothing that’s in…
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Letters from an American – November 12, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 12, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 12, 2025 It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews. As Marc Elias of Democracy Docket put it today, while it was…
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Seeing Things – Trump: Gold In The Capitol? – Liza Donnelly
And the Epstein Files are still not released… By Liza Donnelly, November 3, 2025 Trump really would rather not have a legislative branch of any kind. Plus, the building that houses that branch of democracy is not gaudy enough for him. And this just in: Trump says he’s only going to make partial SNAP payments…
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Letters from an American – November 1, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 1, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 01, 2025 Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J. Trump’s celebration of his new marble bathroom in the White House was so tone deaf at a time when federal employees are working without pay, furloughed workers are taking out bank loans to pay…
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Good News – A Court Rejects Trump’s Effort To Suppress The Vote
By Joyce Vance, Nov 01, 2025 Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance Good News – A Court Rejects Trump’s Effort To Suppress The Vote In March, Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS.” Predictably, it was designed to do anything but that. Its goal was to make it…
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Letters from an American – October 19, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, October 19, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 19, 2025 All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies. G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers partnered with Atlanta-based science newsroom The Xylom to estimate that as many as…
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Seeing Things – My Drawings Marched! -Liza Donnelly
My Drawings Marched! No Kings Protest photos By Liza Donnelly, Oct 19, 2025 When asked if the president had a comment on the demonstrations yesterday for No Kings Day nationwide, Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, gave a brief response in an email. “Who cares?” she said. Millions came out to protest. Apparently red states…
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Jack Smith Speaks – Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance Jack Smith Speaks By Joyce Vance, Oct 14, 2025 You have choices about where you get your news and analysis. I’m grateful you’ve chosen to read Civil Discourse. If you value clear, independent insight into the law and our democracy, I hope you’ll consider a paid subscription. Your support makes…
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Reporting from Dog Lake – These Orwellian United States – Teri Carter
Reporting from Dog Lake, Rural life, rescue dogs and Kentucky politics. These Orwellian United States No Kings rallies will be held in cities throughout the United States this Saturday. We’ve had enough already. I look forward to seeing you there. By Teri Carter, Oct 14, 2025 At a high-profile, televised funeral last month, the President…
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