The crown jewels and their princes Jared Kushner and Mohamed Bin Salman (Given the revelation that the recently executed search warrant at Trump’s Florida property referenced highly classified documents relating to nuclear weapons, I am reposting a version of this from its original on March 3, 2019.) Two reports this…

During his speech on July 23, 2022, at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán argued that Europeans should not “become peoples of mixed race.” “In the same speech, Orbán also appeared to joke about Nazi gas chambers, saying in the context of…

I don’t discount that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is clamoring for top spot. Shortly after Roger Stone’s January 2019 Indictment, I posted a version of this essay, portions of which are included below. …

Given Trump’s success in finding people who subordinated every virtue to him, people who pledged personal loyalty to him above all else, and culling out those who refused, what character of persons remained within the lame duck administration at its end? Did those loyalists who resigned in disgust in the…

Antiabortionists have worked tirelessly, and unscrupulously, since 1973 to reverse Roe. They aren’t finished with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which vacated Roe and eliminated 49 years of constitutionally protected bodily, reproductive, and healthcare autonomy. Their goal is a nationwide unconditional ban on abortion through one of three means: …

If “fundamentally change” means “destroy,” the Washington Post’s Editorial Board said it correctly: “The Supreme Court’s next move could fundamentally change our democracy.” It’s Hard to Overstate the Danger of the Voting Case the Supreme Court Just Agreed to Hear. The Republican supermajority on the Supreme Court signaled it is…

I live in Utah where a disproportionate majority of elected officials are conservative Mormons, where the Mormon Church is consulted on policy and its leadership must approve all significant legislation. That symbiotic church-state relationship has existed here since Utah joined the Union. The only thing blue about Utah is Mormon…

I have been a harsh critic of the GOP and its steep descent into an abyss from a party with a platform of conservative values that placed the constitutional order foremost. Still, I may have underestimated the depth and consequences of the GOP’s moral and intellectual collapse. At the Jan…

(If it is not obvious, the quote in the title attributed to Lee is parody.) The Jan. 6 Select Committee’s first public hearing places in higher-definition Utah Senator Mike Lee’s secretive efforts to overturn the election and keep Trump in power. The Select Committee’s presentation this week outlined in stark…