A top Putin critic on how to oppose Trump: “making him look like a loser is crucial” A conversation with chess champion Garry Kasparov. Updated by Alexander Bisley  Feb 11, 2017, 8:00am EST First posted on Vox. Garry Kasparov knows what it is to oppose an authoritarian ruler. The longtime world chess champion was arrested twice in […]

Propelled by the Trump campaign and a new focus on the ‘alt-right,’ the Daily Stormer is now the top hate site in America. (The Southern Poverty Law Center specializes in civil rights and public interest litigation  against white supremacist groups, identification of hate groups.) By Keegan Hankes, Southern Poverty Law Center, February 09, 2017 The celebrations at The Daily Stormer began early […]

How much do the early days of the Trump administration look like the Third Reich? Historian Richard Evans weighs in. British Historian and author Richard J. Evans   First posted on Slate By Isaac Chotiner, Slate staff writer. Richard Evans established himself as arguably the pre-eminent historian of 20th-century Germany with his astonishing trilogy on the […]

A Low-Tech Guide to Becoming More Politically Active By  BRIAN X. CHEN FEB. 8, 2017 The New York Times Photo A protest in Edinburgh against President Trump’s executive order on immigration. Social media played a big role in organizing such demonstrations. CreditMark Runnacles/Getty Images  SAN FRANCISCO — No matter which political party you belong to, one thing is […]

Utahns drown out Chaffetz with demand to ‘explain yourself’ while congressman rebuffs at tense town hall By COURTNEY TANNER | The Salt Lake Tribune First Published Feb 09 2017 06:27PM    •    Updated 4 minutes ago https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsaltlaketribune%2Fvideos%2F10155016652039399%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Amid constant booing, the Republican has a hard time trying to answer questions about public lands, Trump and immigration. Rep. Jason Chaffetz tried to […]

How to stop an autocracy The danger isn’t that Trump will build an autocracy. It’s that congressional Republicans will let him. Updated by Ezra Klein@ezraklein Feb 7, 2017, 9:40am EST First posted on Vox. There is nothing about the Trump administration that should threaten America’s system of government. The Founding Fathers were realistic about the […]

Protests, phone calls, and mobilization are making a difference. First posted on Vox.com Updated by Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesiasmatt@vox.com   Feb 6, 2017, 7:30am EST It’s easy to miss amid Donald Trump’s frenetic pace of activity and nonstop media coverage, but the most important story in American politics right now isn’t about what Trump is doing: It’s that the […]

If you’re not a journalist, you probably can’t imagine how offensive it is, how absolutely unacceptably outrageous it is to hear the president say — as he did today — that “the very, very dishonest press” does not report terrorist attacks. If a reporter were to spit directly in his face, it would be perhaps […]

As I was completing the previous post, “Becoming a One-Party Nation,” three Republican senators objected strongly to Trump’s comparison of our country with Putin’s Russia, as described below by The Washington Post. The question now is how much will it take for them and their fellow Republicans to act on these objections. Past performance is not […]

Meaningful resistance to Donald Trump ultimately will require participation of Republicans—his supporters, financial backers, Congressional allies, cabinet, the people who now surround, encourage, manipulate, and enable him. Until enough Republicans fear that his impulsiveness, ignorance, and refusal to accept counsel are going to destroy not only his presidency but the GOP itself, nothing will stop […]