Authoritarianism

Actor Alec Baldwin fired back at President Donald Trump’s angry Sunday morning tweet accusing “Saturday Night Live” of “real collusion” hours after the show mocked his national emergency declaration.Trump asked how NBC’s “Saturday Night…

President Donald Trump erupted during a Q&A with reporters on Friday when CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta pressed him on the source of his dubious border crime data and asked if he was “concocting a national emergency…

President Trump took a shot at his potential 2020 opponent at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas, Monday night, mocking the size of former Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke’s crowd at a nearby counter-rally.“He has 200…

Shortly beforean angry Trump supporter attackedreporters and camera crews at a rally in El Paso, Texas, last night, President Trump falsely claimed that Democrats allow babies to talk to their parents before they are executed.Trump was…

President Trump ripped into fact-checkers as “some of the most dishonest people in media” at a rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday night.“Where are the fact-checkers? Some of the most dishonest people in media are the so-called…

A male supporter of President Donald Trump allegedly rand down a set of stairs in the press section in the El Paso County Coliseum and jumped onto a platform where reporters and cameramen were recording Trump’s speech during a…

President Donald Trump on Saturday ignited a firestorm of criticism for making an apparent joke about Native American genocide in a tweet taunting Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) over her Native American heritage.Hours after Warren…

The Washington Post on Sunday aired its first ever Super Bowl advertisement, a minute-long commercial narrated by Tom Hanks that highlights the importance of reporting and press freedom.The ad, which aired during the fourth quarter of the…

In the rubble of President Trump’s renewed attacks on the U.S. intelligence community this week, senior intelligence briefers are breaking two years of silence to warn the commander-in-chief is endangering U.S. security by…

According to a declaration filed on Friday as part of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), officials from the Trump administration on Friday complained it would…