Newsweek Has the US Become the Bad Guy? | Opinion Thomas G. Moukawsher Published Apr 22, 2026 at 05:00 AM EDT It’s pretty scary when China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is the one warning the world last week that “to maintain the authority of international rule of law, we cannot use it when it suits us…

Newsweek The Law is King—Tariff Ruling May Signal the End of Lawlessness | Opinion Thomas G. Moukawsher Published Feb 24, 2026 at 06:00 AM EST   Approval of the Supreme Court remains near historic lows. Many perceived that the Court was repeatedly intervening to give President Donald Trump what he wanted. But last week’s ruling striking down the Trump tariffs should…

Newsweek Don’t Get Distracted—Trump is Still After Your Money | Opinion Thomas G. Moukawsher Published Feb 12, 2026 at 06:00 AM EST updated Feb 12, 2026 at 06:01 AM EST   We should know better by now. President Donald Trump cares only about filling his pockets with money he can use to proclaim his own…

Newsweek The New American ICE Age | Opinion Thomas G. Moukawsher Published Jan 20, 2026 at 01:31 PM EST White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller recently summed up the administration of President Donald Trump in a single scary sentence: “We live in a world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed…

Newsweek With Trump We Have More to Fear Than Fear Itself | Opinion Thomas G. Moukawsher Published Dec 23, 2025 at 06:45 AM EST President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously told Americans facing the Great Depression that, “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”  Thanks to the presidency of Donald Trump, that no…

Newsweek Göring, Victoria and Trump | Opinion Thomas G. Moukawsher Published Dec 11, 2025 at 06:00 AM EST Nobody believed that right makes might like Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Göring. It was Göring who has been credited with telling the police: “Shoot first and ask questions later.” It was Göring, founder of the Gestapo, who believed democracy…

Newsweek Four Ways to Fight Trump’s Golden Age of Corruption Thomas G. Moukawsher   Are Americans ready to see the danger from President Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Corruption? Will anger over affordability lead to anger over corruption? Maybe we will realize that a more honest government could more honestly address the need for decent jobs,…

Newsweek Donald Trump and the Six Rules Every Dictator Lives By | Opinion Thomas G. Moukawsher Published Nov 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM EST Don’t ignore the fallout from the recent local elections. The results are important, but the reaction may be even more important. President Donald Trump is trotting out his election lies again.…