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Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court

  VIDEO VERSION OF THIS STORY HERE Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court by James Bovard, August 31, 2026 The Trump administration’s crusade to crush campus criticism took another wallop on Friday in a California courtroom. Federal judge Noël Wise ruled that the Trump administration’s “ideological-deportation policy” brazenly violated the U.S. Constitution. The Stanford […]

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2016: The Year American Democracy Became “Post-Truth”

2016: The Year American Democracy Became “Post-Truth”by James Bovard Was the 2016 election a turning point for American democracy? Did political shenanigans and the election destroy so much credibility and legitimacy that the system will never fully recover?   In 2016, ignorant voters were reviled like never before. However, the entire political-media system floundered badly. […]

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Why Did Trump Arrest a Student for Writing an Op-Ed?

Ryan McMaken and I had fun smacking the Trump administration for sending 6 masked federal agents to seize a Turkish grad student to punish her for writing an op-ed. Is this case the bellwether for a sweeping crackdown on free speech – first with foreign students, & then American citizens? Trump, discussing the protests over […]

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Trump Administration Vanishing People in America: Ozturk Update

UPDATE: Trump administration flip-flops on mass cancellation of foreign student visas. This is a prudent decision but another huge unforced error by the Trump team.   via New York Times: Friday marks one month since six masked federal agents seized Rumeysa  Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts.  […]

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Zero Hedge: “Bovard Warns Conservatives, Libertarians Over Foreign Student Persecution Cases”

Zero Hedge, April 18, 2025 Bovard Warns Conservatives, Libertarians Over Foreign Student Persecution Cases Authored by Jim Bovard “If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion,” economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek’s insight could be the Rosetta Stone […]

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First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers

First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers by James Bovard, March 31, 2025, Mises Institute On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk—who was wearing a hajib—is a Fulbright scholar working on a doctorate at Tufts University. She was abducted and vanished into […]

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