24. Oktober 2025

Donald Trump’s crusade against what he calls “domestic terrorism” has less to do with national security than with rewriting the definition of dissent itself. In a country where the Constitution enshrines the right to protest, assemble, and challenge the powerful, Trump’s September 2025 orders—his executive declaration naming Antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” and the subsequent presidential memorandum Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence—amount...

01. Oktober 2025

Once again, the world’s most storied democracy finds itself embroiled in the self-inflicted crisis of a government shutdown. What was once a constitutional curiosity has metastasized into predictable political theatre, a symbol not of principled disagreement but of systemic rot. Each shutdown delivers a fresh insult to United States institutions: vital services paused, workers unpaid, citizens consigned to uncertainty. The legislature, paralyzed by faction and grievance, abandons even the...

18. September 2025

The democratic fabric of the United States is unraveling in a manner both urgent and deeply disturbing, propelled in large part by the aggressive media strategy of the current Trump administration—a campaign that, in its scale and audacity, evokes the hallmarks of military coups past. Yet, the threat here is not one of overt violence or troop movements; rather, it manifests through a calculated seizure of communicative power and a systematic dismantling of press freedom. At the heart of this...

07. Juli 2025

Elon Musk’s flirtation with the idea of founding a new political party in the United States is a revealing case study in the collision between personal ambition and the entrenched realities of American democracy. The notion that a wealthy outsider can reshape the political landscape by sheer force of will is seductive, but the historical and structural barriers to such an endeavor are immense. The American political system is designed to absorb shocks, not to facilitate rapid change. The...

06. Juli 2025

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the country faces a profound crisis of democratic legitimacy and institutional resilience. The ideals of 1776—government by consent, the inalienable rights of individuals, and the rejection of arbitrary power—are increasingly at odds with the current trajectory of American governance. Nowhere is this tension more visible than in the systematic concentration of power in the presidency, the erosion of...

04. Juli 2025

The passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill” marks a watershed moment in contemporary American politics, reflecting and amplifying the deep ideological, social, and economic divisions that characterize the United States in 2025. This legislation, passed exclusively by a narrow Republican majority and signed into law on Independence Day, is emblematic of the current era’s partisan polarization and the consolidation of executive power under President Trump. At its core, the bill enacts sweeping,...

29. Mai 2025

Donald Trump’s ascendancy within the Republican Party is best understood as the culmination of a decades-long, self-reinforcing process of radicalization—one that the party itself initiated through strategic choices, institutional reforms, and the cultivation of a particular media environment. This process is deeply intertwined with the phenomenon of asymmetric polarization, a concept widely discussed in political science to describe the fact that, over the past several decades, the...

02. Mai 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) data collection practices, while framed as a technocratic tool for streamlining bureaucracy, represent a seismic shift toward centralized, unaccountable governance that mirrors-and in some ways accelerates-the logic of surveillance systems in authoritarian regimes like China. At its core, DOGE’s approach weaponizes the veneer of efficiency to justify bypassing democratic safeguards, collapsing the distinction between public service and...

01. Mai 2025

The Trump administration’s strategic exploitation of legal and institutional frameworks to expand executive power provides a compelling case study in the academic discourse on democratic backsliding-a process marked by the gradual erosion of checks on authority, the subversion of independent institutions, and the manipulation of legal systems to consolidate control. This pattern aligns with scholarly models that identify democratic decline not through overt coups or authoritarian power grabs,...

24. April 2025

Donald Trump’s repeated references to the U.S. tariff policy of 1870 to 1913 as a model for today’s government financing reveal a historically incoherent and economically naïve worldview that disregards both radically changed fiscal realities and the social costs of that earlier system. His claim that tariffs could replace the income tax fails at the most basic empirical level: Between 1870 and 1913, tariffs accounted for an average of 38–50% of federal revenue, at a time when government...