Column: Hegseth’s New Rules for Journalists Don’t Make America Safer

Column: Hegseth’s new rules for journalists don’t make America safer

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What I Learned at This Week’s White House Press Conference - LewRockwell

“Every boat we strike saves the lives of 25,000 Americans,” says Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.  Wouldn’t that be something if it were true! How simple the problems of our post-imperial US world would be! The White House press conference of October 23rd centered on the President, sitting on a golden chair between Ken and Barbie.  His staff of beautiful women and slightly eggheaded men all articulately competing to flatter the President for his b…

Top MAGA officials are growing 'crueler' in the service of Trump: analysis

During Donald Trump's first presidency, he bitterly clashed with a long list of traditional conservatives who pushed back against his proposals — from a secretary of state (Rex Tillerson) to a White House chief of staff (John Kelly) to a national security adviser (John Bolton) to two U.S. attorneys general (Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr). Even one of Trump's White House press secretaries (Stephanie Grisham) ended up giving Democratic presidential …

Fading of the First Amendment: Trump’s second term and the silencing of the American press

It’s been one year since Donald Trump was re-elected to the White House, and for journalists across the country, it feels like the summit of a rollercoaster just before the drop.  The air feels heavier. The news hasn’t slowed down — it never does — but the freedom to report it has. During his first term, Trump’s feuds with the press often played out like a spectacle: fiery tweets, combative press conferences, a war of words between the Oval Offi…