No, this is not Napoleon’s Coup of 18 Brumaire when he overthrew the French Directory in 1799. It just feels like it. Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift are the authors of Washington Merry-Go-Round, the ...

This extraordinary story is told in a new documentary, 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat', which juxtaposes jazz with political murder. Directed by Johan Grimonprez, it cut deep into the blood-and-rubber ...

On the west coast Straussian account propagated by the Claremont Institute, the US constitutional system’s founding had ...

David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that ...

A classic coup d’état has guns. Uniformed men run wild seizing government agencies and claiming control over what government does and who government serves. But in our new cyber age, the Yale ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The problem, as Musk himself has been ...

In Columbus, Ohio, protesters outside the Statehouse shouted, "Wake up, USA! Stop the coup that's underway!" "I'm appalled by democracy's changes in the last, well, specifically two weeks — but ...

In her latest installment of Letters From an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson writes about the ongoing coup of the US government by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I’m going to start tonight by ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What we are witnessing is an ...

Rep. Jamie Raskin, who protested with fellow Democratic legislators, federal workers, and outraged Americans outside the Washington, D.C. headquarters of USAID, speaking out against Elon Musk's ...

Things seemed bleak enough when our collective assumption was that Donald Trump, having won the election, would be our president. But, proving that things can always get worse, it's increasingly ...

Elon Musk has reportedly taken over the Treasury Department’s central payment system, putting him in the position to unilaterally cut off federal funding to disfavored programs and setting off ...