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🌎 How Democracies Fight Back, Part Two: What a Court's "No" Is Actually Worth Under Trump
We're continuing How Democracies Fight Back, the new series for The Planet that follows The Strongman's Playbook. I published Part 1 last week, opening with institutional resistance: the D.C. Circuit blocking the White House ballroom agains...
How Democracies Fight Back, Part One: What Institutional Resistance Looks Like Under Trump
On August 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 that the Trump administration could not continue above-ground construction of the White House ballroom without congressional authorization. A week later, on August 14, Tr...
How Trump's America Is Engineering a System That Cannot Lose
How Marcos, Franco, and Lukashenko tried to design their own permanence, and why Trump’s America is engineering the same system
On January 15, 2026, Reuters sat down with President Trump for a wide-ranging interview. The conversation turne...
In Trump's America, Independent Institutions Are Learning What Happens When They Resist.
Part 9 of The Strongman's Playbook: strangle civil society, and the citizens who disagree have no institutions through which to act on that disagreement.
On July 4, 2025, nine people gathered outside an ICE detention facility in Alvarado,...
In Trump's America, Loyalty Is Being Made Profitable. History Shows Where That Leads.
Strongmen do not survive on fear alone. They create supporters with a financial stake in the regime's survival. Self-interest is more durable than conviction.
On April 25, 2025, dozens of America’s top business leaders met for dinner in th...
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