Democracy
Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears
Three prominent critics of President Donald Trump are leaving Yale’s faculty — and the United States — amid attacks on higher education to take up positions at the University of Toronto in fall 2025.
Philosophy professor Jason Stanley announced this week that he will leave Yale, while history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, decided to leave around the November elections. The three professors will work at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Snyder and Shore both specialize in Eastern European history and each has drawn parallels between the fascist regimes they have studied and the current Trump administration. Stanley, a philosopher, has also published books on fascism and propaganda, including the popular book “How Fascism Works.”
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Responds to Trump's Call for Impeachment of a Federal Judge
For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.
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Administration Continues to Weaken US Government
On Tuesday afternoon, the Trump administration announced that 443 federally owned properties were eligible to be sold, including such iconic buildings as the D.C. headquarters of the Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
But there was a problem: Many of the agencies affected were unaware that their buildings were going to be on the list because their directors had not been consulted, according to a General Services Administration employee briefed on internal deliberations, including a Wednesday meeting of top officials at the agency that oversees federal real estate.
The list was later pared down to exclude most D.C.-area buildings, then completely removed overnight, with the GSA webpage where it previously had been displayed featuring a new comment saying that the list will be “coming soon.”
A warning sign for democracy in the United States.