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It has been clear for a long time that President Trump is a person with a disorganized mind and a disordered personality. What the past few months and especially the past few weeks have brought into focus is how his pathologies have cascaded downward and outward through his administration. They have become institutionalized. The reason the administration so often does not act coherently is that it cannot. The world faces something new and baffling and frightening in Mr. Trump’s second term: a psychotic state.
— Jonathan Rauch and Peter Wehener, NYT 2026/04/12

Like a lot of other Americans, I’ve oscillated in these dark times between two emotional poles. At points, I tell myself that Donald Trump is a uniquely malevolent figure who has seized levers of power that no previous president had ever dared to grasp. The story doesn’t stop state violence in the streets or illegal military operations abroad. Yet it has its comforts. Once Trump passes from the scene — as the laws of nature, if not politics, require — some kind of restoration of the American democratic and constitutional project can take place. On darker days, I find myself turning to a more thoroughgoing narrative: that Trump is the fulfillment of what America has always been — a self-satisfied nation, granted license by its myths about providence and exceptionalism to do whatever it wants. Trump didn’t come from nowhere, after all. His two victories were forged by choices made by Americans and the leaders they elected. If he had not existed, history would have invented someone like him. This explanation offers its own consolation. At least it is something a rational mind can grasp.
— Lydia Polgreen, NYT 2026/0328

I think the war is very complete, pretty much.
— Trump in phone interview w Weijia Jiang, CBS News, 2026/03/09

Current

Ongoing coverage of the Administration

Raw Story, 2026/04/11
Trump booed at UFC event as Vance announces Iran negotiations have failed

BBC UK, 2026/04/10
US inflation jumps to highest level in almost two years

Raw Story, 2026/04/10
'You couldn't make this up': Melania Trump's Epstein denial leaves observers speechless

CBS News, 2026/04/09
Judge says Pentagon must restore press access

Mother Jones, 2026/04/09
Trump’s EPA Chief Delivers the Keynote at a Conference of Climate Change Deniers

MS.now, 2026/04/09
CDC delays report on benefits of Covid vaccine

American Prospect, 2026/04/09
The War Is Bad. The Cease-Fire Doesn’t Exist. The Future Is Awful.

Prospect.org, 2026/03/31
(Bad) Policy Follow-Up: When Consumer Protection Stops, Scammers Run Amok

MS.now, 2026/03/31
Republicans eye health care cuts to pay for U.S. war in Iran. Trump said recently that Republicans can “own” health care as an issue. Absurd at the time, the comments are suddenly worse.

CNBC, 2026/03/31
Trump lashes out at UK and France, telling allies ‘the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore’

Thomas Kika, MSN, 2026/03/30
Insider reveal tensions as Trump "getting a little bored" of war

The Nation, 2026/03/30
The Bottomless Stupidity of House Republicans: Somehow, they’ve managed to top themselves in the crisis over TSA funding. Who knew that was even possible?

TruthOut, 2026/03/30
Trump Touts “Hand-Carved” Columns on Ballroom as War Costs US 10k Jobs a Month. Amid blaring warnings about the economy, Trump said the Corinthian columns are “top of the line.”

ABC News, 2026/03/30
Spain says it has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war

Semafor, 2026/03/28
Why Trump’s latest Iran moves may signal ground troops

CNN, 2026/03/28
Analysis: Trump keeps saying ‘nobody’ knew or expected things that lots of people knew or expected

HuffPost, 2026/03/27
Irony Meters Explode Over Donald Trump’s ‘Stupid’ President Demand

CNN, 2026/03/23
‘President Trump is right’: The White House’s go-to line about Trump’s false claims

AP, 2026/03/15
Analysis: Two weeks into war with Iran, Trump has been knocked back on his political heels

The New Republic, 2026/03/13
Trump Team Spirals Over Damning Report on Bungled Iran War Planning

NBC News, 2026/03/13
The Trump administration has detained more than 900 children — including a boy with severe autism — for longer than allowed under a decades-old legal settlement

MS.now, 2026/03/11
Mike Johnson won’t do a thing about the GOP’s Islamophobia. When asked about Rep. Andy Ogles’ bigoted anti-Muslim outburst, House Speaker Mike Johnson did what he’s done many times in the past: nothing.

MS.now, 2026/03/11
How Trump is replacing the ‘deep state’ (not a real thing) with ‘the MAGA state’

Senator, 2026/03/11
US Vice President Vance criticized for silence on Iran war

CNN, 2026/03/10
Fact check: Trump’s latest false, unproven and contradictory claims about the Iran war

HuffPost, 20260/03/10
Trump Generating His Own Fog Of Disinformation About Iran War. In Other Words, Doing What He Does Best

TruthOut, 20260/03/10
Plurality of Americans Support Firing Multiple Trump Cabinet Members

Politico, 20260/03/10
Trump pick for State Department drops out after drawing heat for comments about ‘white culture’

The American Prospect, 2025/03/04
Can Congress Stop Mad King Trump’s Mad War on Iran?

MS.now, 2026/03/03
Trump has exhibited a total lack of coherence on why he began a new war — or how it will end

MediaITE, 2026/02/20
Trump Vows to Use ‘Even Stronger’ Methods to Keep His Tariffs: ‘I Can Destroy’ a Country

Glenn Greenwald, Substack, 2026/02/20
The US is on the brink of a major new war that Trump has not even bothered top explain

CNN, 2026/02/20
Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal

HuffPost, 2026/02/17
If you were wondering what Germans (and many Europeans) think about Trump...

MSN, 2026/02/17
Trump's polling numbers sink to new low

Salon, 2026/02/12
Trump's desire to nationalize elections is about one thing - control

Tropic Press, 2026/02/12
Bondi was more interested in El Paso lasers than questions about Epstein cover-up

NJ.com, 2026/02/12
Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing a torrent of criticism from a number of conservatives following her fiery testimony before the House Judiciary Committee

NPR, 2026/02/11
Annual governors' gathering with White House unraveling after Trump excludes Democrats

The Hill, 2026/02/11
Shouting match erupts after Bondi asked to apologize to Epstein victims

Anti-Science

Trump’s disdain for evidence and the truth makes him hostile toward science. During the first months of his second term he has ceded US primacy in research and technology, endangering the health of the planet and its inhabitants.

arsTechnica, 2026/02/11
Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants

Reuters, 2025/12/08
US judge rejects Trump administration's halt of wind energy permits

The Guardian, 2025/12/03
Trump says he will repeal Biden-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks

AP, 2025/11/20
CDC website changed to contradict scientific conclusion that vaccines don’t cause autism

NPR, 2025/11/10
Countries are gathering for climate negotiations. Here's where the U.S. stands

Science, 2025/10/27
Argentina’s move to woo Trump has derailed South America’s largest radio telescope

ABC, 2025/09/23
Fact-checking what Trump said about climate change during the UN General Assembly

Salon, 2025/09/04
Trump’s clean oil claims run up against hard data in Texas

HuffPost, 2025/09/02
Scientists Say Trump Admin’s Climate Report Is Riddled With Errors

New Yorker, 2025/08/31
How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Anti-Vax Agenda Is Infecting America

Axios, 2025/06/09
RFK Jr. removes all 17 members of vaccine committee for CDC

Science, 2025/05/12
Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate