Newsweek It Looks Like CBS and Donald Trump Are Negotiating a Bribe | Opinion Published Apr 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM EDTUpdated Apr 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM EDT https://www.newsweek.com/cbs-donald-trump-are-negotiating-bribe-opinion-2065826  Thomas Moukawsher   As you read this, in some crowded conference room, a mediator is negotiating a bribe to be paid by CBS to Donald Trump, president of the United…

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Newsweek  To Get Deportee Back, the Supreme Court Must Make Trump Feel Pain Published Apr 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM EDT Thomas G. Moukawsher   As Kurt Vonnegut might have put it, the excrement has hit the air conditioning. Somewhere around now, behind closed doors and black robes, nine justices of the Supreme Court of the United States know they’re…

Newsweek Americans Need to Come to Their Senses: All Five of Them | Opinion Published Apr 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM EDT The far left and the far right can seem senseless sometimes. That doesn’t mean they’re stupid. It means they stopped using their five senses to form rational views about politics. Rational views come from…

Newsweek Playing Trump’s Game Won’t Help Law Firms or Justice | Opinion Published Apr 01, 2025 at 12:09 PM EDT Thomas G. Moukawsher The presidential protection racket continues and intensifies. This time it’s an assault on the lawyers. Lawyers aren’t just smart to fight back, they have an obligation to fight back. President Donald Trump has targeted law firms who have…

Newsweek  Congress Is in Cardiac Arrest. The Supreme Court Holds the Paddles | Opinion Published Mar 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM EDTUpdated Mar 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM EDT Thomas G. Moukawsher Members of Congress have long suffered from the view that the give and take in the legislative branch—the earmarks, the log rolling, and the back slapping integral…

Newsweek  Trump Is Trampling the Constitution With Bogus Emergencies | Opinion Published Mar 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM EDT Thomas G. Moukawsher Americans should beware of emergencies—real and imagined. All the famous dictators accumulated their power during so-called “emergencies.” So far, President Donald Trump has invented a bunch of bogus ones and Congress almost opened the door to a real one when Democrats contemplated allowing…

Newsweek  Donald Trump Is No Andrew Jackson—Or Even Richard Nixon | Opinion Published Mar 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM EDT Thomas G. Moukawsher No past mistakes justify new ones? Some supporters of President Donald Trump‘s Administration are pointing to historical illegalities to justify the current ones. They should consider the “two wrongs fallacy” that reminds us that…

Newsweek  The Supreme Court’s Rejection of Trump End Run Is Great News | Opinion Published Mar 06, 2025 at 10:57 AM EST Thomas G. Moukawsher The Supreme Court decision allowing normal legal process to proceed in the Trump administration’s foreign aid case is an important reminder that we have three equal branches of government in America. President Donald Trump has repeatedly challenged…

Newsweek  Elon Musk’s Real Motive for Dismantling the Government | Opinion Published Mar 03, 2025 at 4:22 AM EST Thomas G. Moukawsher   What do you do when you—the richest man in the world—have around $400 billion to play with and you’re being hassled with health, safety, and ethics regulations? You buy the guy who runs the regulatory…