Newsweek Here Comes the Bribe. What To Do About the $16M CBS Is Paying Donald Trump | Opinion Thomas Moukawsher Published Jul 08, 2025 at 07:00 AM EDT Incredibly, it’s happened. In broad daylight, amid credible claims of corruption, CBS has agreed to pay President Donald Trump‘s library $16 million for Federal Communication Commission (FCC) approval of a broadcast license…

Newsweek The Charges Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Collapsed in Court. Next Should Come Consequences Thomas Moukawsher Published Jul 01, 2025 at 10:34 AM EDT People interested in law and order in the United States are looking the wrong way. It’s not the Supreme Court ending nationwide injunctions last week that should disturb us. It’s the implosion of the Department of Justice‘s…

Newsweek One-Man Declarations of War Threaten the Nation and the World | Opinion Thomas Moukawsher Published Jun 24, 2025 at 01:25 PM EDT Here we are waging war again. But don’t just blame Donald Trump. Blame two Democrats, Harry Truman and Bill Clinton—and save room for the incredible shrinking Congress. It was Truman who came up with the idea…

Newsweek: The Supreme Court Rightly Revives Police Responsibility for Wrong House Raids | Opinion Thomas Moukawsher Published Jun 18, 2025 at 08:00 AM EDT   Let’s hope only a small number of us think it’s OK for squads of heavily armed federal agents to break down our doors, throw in some flash bangs, and then…

Newsweek Why Was Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returned to the US? | Opinion Thomas Moukawsher Published Jun 11, 2025 at 06:30 AM EDT If you’ve moved on to the latest Trump spectacle in Los Angeles, you may have underrated the monumental importance of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador. It’s a watershed moment. The Justice Department has…

Newsweek Trump’s Right. There Is a Judicial Coup—But It’s a Counter-Coup | Opinion Thomas Moukawsher Published Jun 04, 2025 at 08:00 AM EDT   President Donald Trump and his minions continue to rage and blow as they lose one court case after another. In a case of Trumpian projection, the White House declared the recent decision at the U.S. Court…

Newsweek Talk of Suspending Habeas Corpus Is a Hand Grenade on America’s Heart | Opinion Thomas Moukawsher Published May 20, 2025 at 02:56 PM EDT   What’s in a word like “invasion”—the one the Trump administration is tossing around in connection with the Alien Enemies Act and the writ of habeas corpus? After all, don’t Americans share a common understanding…

Newsweek Sky-High Corruption From Our Government of Gangsters | Opinion Thomas Moukawsher Published May 13, 2025 at 09:40 AM EDT Corruption in the Trump administration is so pervasive that it’s hard to keep track of whether President Donald Trump‘s dash for dictatorship or his dash for cash is moving faster. Since the news broke that Trump…

Newsweek  Thomas Moukawsher Published May 06, 2025 at 10:44 AM EDT It’s a big, beautiful constitution. Absolutely, it is. It guarantees democracy. It says its “supreme value” is individual rights and freedoms. It promises political diversity, equality before the law, free speech, free elections, human dignity, privacy, freedom from torture, and the inviolability of the…

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…