Bipartisan Boom in Trump Mug Shot Merchandise Demonstrates the Healing Power of Commerce
Haters and lovers of the former president can both express their diametrically opposed views with a Trump mug-shot mug.
Haters and lovers of the former president can both express their diametrically opposed views with a Trump mug-shot mug.
A self-described "anarcho-capitalist" leads in the polls ahead of Argentina's upcoming presidential election.
The paper worries that "social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation."
Mug shots are not taken to humiliate a defendant before they've been convicted. But that's the purpose they widely serve now.
The video site took out ads touting social media's benefits.
The GOP presidential candidate also definitively said climate change is real.
In last night's Republican presidential debate, candidates floated various forms of military action against drug cartels.
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It's no mystery why the former president preferred a forum in which his record and positions would face no serious challenge.
Only Vivek Ramaswamy and Gov. Ron DeSantis said they wouldn't support additional aid to Ukraine. But both argued we should be more militarily engaged against China and Mexico.
The surging candidate, a political unknown, articulated a foreign policy that was somewhat more libertarian than his rivals.
Accusing competitors of being "super PAC puppets," just asking questions about conspiracies, and lying about the media is all of the same successful populist piece.
"Donald Trump added $8 trillion to our debt," Haley said during the opening moments of Wednesday's first Republican primary debate.
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At best, tonight's debate is a glorified preseason football game—an unwatchable spectacle that no one ought to enjoy.
The next presidential election may be between the two men. Can't we do better?
A report reveals new draconian restrictions the 2024 frontrunner wants to implement, such as sea blockades in Latin America and "ideological screening" for migrants.
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Trump and his acolytes' conduct was indefensible, but the state's RICO law is overly broad and makes it too easy for prosecutors to bring charges.
Trump's Georgia indictment has much in common with the most recent federal case against him. But also breaks some new ground.
The defendants will claim their alleged "racketeering activity" was a sincere effort to rectify election fraud.
It was never a principled fight against special privileges granted to a private company.
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I was one of the critics he responded to, and in this post I offer a rejoinder.
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End the government’s plea-bargaining racket with open and adversarial jury trials.
Haley seeks to make her relative youthfulness a selling point. It hasn't caught on among primary voters, but it's nonetheless worth considering whether the oldest candidates are always the best.
Giving presidents impunity for using force and fraud to try to nullify election results is far worse than any potential risk of prosecuting Trump.
Though an improvement over his obsession with wokeness and culture wars, DeSantis can't seem to ditch the populist demagoguery.
When he alleged fraud and sought help from government officials, they say, Trump was exercising rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
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The Democrats and Republicans seem ripe for replacement. But how and by what?
Recent articles by Lawfare and Walter Olson perform a valuable service on this front.
His state of mind when he tried to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election remains a mystery, perhaps even to him.
The new federal charges against Trump depend on the assumption that his claims were "knowingly false."
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His attempt to stay in power despite losing an election is well worthy of prosecution and punishment, on grounds of retribution and deterrence.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith says Trump attempted to "defraud the United States."
Unlike calling Trump's stolen-election fantasy "the Big Lie," his lawyer's statements were demonstrably false assertions of fact.
New research on Facebook before the 2020 election finds scant evidence to suggest algorithms are shifting our political views.
After its spectacular screw-ups on COVID-19 "misinformation," the government shouldn't be so quick to squelch dissenting voices.
After firing the staffer blamed for a video that borrowed Nazi imagery, is Ron DeSantis finally backing away from the authoritarian edgelords?
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Appeals in the January 6 cases raise serious questions about how broadly the statute should be applied.