Imminent Danger: President Joe Biden last night sounded the alarm that he believes American democracy is in imminent danger.    Opening with the break-in at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and the attack on her husband, Biden cited the increase in political threats …

Oath Keepers: The Oath Keepers militia on January 6th, 2021, attempted to interrupt the centuries-old tradition of peaceful transfer of power in the US, a federal prosecutor said during opening statements yesterday in the Oath Keepers’ trial for seditious conspiracy.   Federal …

Non-Executive Privilege: Former President Donald Trump is trying to exert executive privilege over documents sought by the Congressional committee investigating the January 6th insurrection.   Responding to the committee’s request for 40 documents,  Trump said in a letter to the National Archives that “I hereby …

False Idol: A centerpiece of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando over the weekend was a caricatured figure of Donald Trump with gold skin and hair, red tie, American flag shorts, and flipflops. Attendees nearly worshipped at the foot of …

Russia With Love: Just a few days after one of his aides was grabbed and drafted into the Russian military, the offices of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were raided yesterday by masked officers who cut their way in with a metal saw. …

Directly to Jail: President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen arranged during the 2016 presidential campaign to pay off two women who had affairs  with Donald Trump  “in coordination and at the direction of Individual-1,”  according to federal prosecutors. …

Evangelical: A fifth woman came forward yesterday to accuse Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual abuse when she was a teenager.   Beverly Young Nelson said that in 1977 Moore flirted with her when she was a 16-year-old waitress …

Terror and Nationalism: The Paris police officer killed Thursday by a terrorist on the Champs-Élysées was an openly gay man who had been one of the officers to respond to the mass attack on the Bataclan concert hall in 2015. …

Show’s Over: After 146 years, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” announced that with rising costs and diminished public interest, they are putting on their last show in May. It’s the end of …

The Intel: President-elect Trump is thinking about limiting the power of the Director of National Intelligence and doing some reorganizing, particularly at the CIA, according to some reports. In the meantime, Trump is taking sides with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange …