want to show you Trump has blown all president out of the water. He signed over 35 times as many orders as new laws, almost no major laws whatsoever, no new legislation, no indication he wants to work with Congress more in the upcoming year on any non-required non-budget items. What we're seeing methodically done is an effort to not only cut out Congress, browbeat the courts, but to change how presidents govern this country less like a democracy and more like an order wielding king if he gets away with. ...

NBC News obtained excerpts of remarks by former President Barack Obama to Democrats at a private DNC fundraiser that was held over the weekend. He told the group this, "I think it's going to require a little bit less naval gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions, and it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up. " Obama went on to say that he was not surprised by what President Trump has done, but that he has been surprised by Democrats who, in his words, stood for all kinds of s ...

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The second season of The Atlantic's podcast entitled Autocracy in America is out now and it features discussions about what its editors describe as quote society's complacency with liberal values and how this carelessness has fueled a democratic retreat and a new belligerance among dictators. Chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative and former world chess champion, Gary Kasparov has taken the reigns from an Applebound as the new host of the program and he joins us now. It's great to have you on the show.U ...

A senator handcuffed, people snatched off the streets by masked agents, judges threatened, and the military deployed on US citizens. This is the new normal right here in the United States, even if there's nothing normal about it. It has spurred talks about the state of our democracy and where the country is headed. Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson was asked this week at an Indianapolis Bar Association event about what keeps her up at night, and here's what she said. I would say the state of our d ...

With ISIS's rapid transformation, we're witnessing a police state taking shape before our eyes, built to operate outside the reach of voters, courts, or the Constitution. Just look at what happened recently in a New York City park. After more than 20 years of coaching kids baseball, Yman Wilder saw ICE agents approach approach players during practice asking where they were from. When the coach stepped in telling the kids not to answer and calling the questions inappropriate, the agents backed off. Which rai ...

President Trump now says the US is going to resume sending arms shipments to Ukraine after a temporary pause. Trump announced this week that the US would supply weapons to Ukraine via NATO. The Trump administration has also been attempting to negotiate a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.That's come up short. Those negotiations hit a snag. Our European allies are finding other ways to try to hold Putin accountable.In fact, a few weeks ago, Ukraine and the Council of Europe launched a special tribunal for ...

Joining me now is Lukan Ahmed Way, distinguished professor of democracy at the University of Toronto and the author of numerous books including Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism and Joyce Vance, former United States Attorney, co-host of the Sisters-in-law podcast and an MSNBC contributor. Welcome to you both. Luka, I think I'm we're getting a commission from University of Toronto.Uh this this show we had uh we had Jason Stanley on at at 10:00. You have studied how ...