The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracy ^82.3%

The Guardian - By Moira Donegan - 4/30/2026, 9:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 38.1% - Negativity Bias 36.6% - Ad Hominem 32.9%

Is America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among citizens, a collective and uniform right of individuals to participate in self-government and to shape the laws that rule them. In that sense, the answer is no: though it has been a republic since its founding, America has only rarely been a true democracy,... more

Why is the Maga project teetering? Because not even Trump supporters voted for this dysfunction ^83.4%

The Guardian - By Moira Donegan - 4/21/2026, 9:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 60.2% - Negativity Bias 52.8% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 25.2%

In a carefully coordinated publicity stunt last week, Donald Trump received a McDonald’s takeaway order from delivery driver Sharon Simmons, a 58-year-old grandmother of 10 from Arkansas. Simmons, a Trump supporter and advocate of his “no tax on tips” policy, testified before Congress last year that she began working as a delivery driver... more

Pam Bondi’s firing won’t have the effect Trump desires ^91%

The Guardian - By Moira Donegan - 4/3/2026, 10:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 66.8% - Negativity Bias 61.1% - Unattributed Quote 38.6%

If the idea was to try to shed some of the liabilities of the Epstein scandal by firing Bondi, the move seems likely to backfire It was only a matter of time. The writing has been on the wall for months for Pam Bondi, Trump’s attorney general, who was unceremoniously fired on Thursday after 14 months leading the justice department. Trump... more

Ending birthright citizenship would change the meaning of America ^86.2%

The Guardian - By Moira Donegan - 4/2/2026, 10:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 61.5% - Negativity Bias 54.5% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 35.9%

American opponents of birthright citizenship – the right of all those born on the soil of a country to claim full legal rights and political representation in that nation – like to point out that many countries don’t have it. On Wednesday at the supreme court, during the oral arguments in Trump v Barbara, the case challenging Donald... more

Trump’s horrors keep accumulating. We need the No Kings protests more than ever ^92.4%

The Guardian - By Moira Donegan - 3/27/2026, 10:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 47.2% - Negativity Bias 38.6% - Burden of Proof 27.4%

Things have changed since the last major No Kings protests, in October 2025. Back then, an estimated 7 million people poured into the streets to protest against the Trump administration; this Saturday, at more than 3,000 events planned nationwide, the crowds are likely to be even bigger. In part, that’s because the Trump administration... more

Trump has lost the ability to entertain. Sadly, he hasn’t lost the ability to offend ^90.4%

The Guardian - By Moira Donegan - 2/25/2026, 6:30 AM

It is one of Donald Trump’s unique talents that he reveals the absurd obsolescence of long-held traditions. In presidential election years, his screaming bloviations on stage make the exercise of gathering the candidates together seem futile. In power, when he divorces facts from policymaking and relies instead on myth and grift to guide... more