David Rothkopf

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Shan Wu |David Rothkopf

The pace at which President Donald Trump is inventing new purposes for Presidential orders reminds me of George Washington Carver’s success in finding over 300 uses for peanuts. But Carver accomplished his feat—as well as numerous other scientific and agricultural innovations—over the span of 47 years at Tuskegee University; Trump has taken less than 100 days in his second term to issue over 100 executive orders.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | David Rothkopf

What should we do with the Supreme Court now that we no longer need it? Surely, the six wise jurists who ruled last year that the President of the United States effectively had the powers of a king must have thought this through. After all, they are regularly described as being the “conservative” members of the court.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Jill Filipovic |David Gardner |Sean Craig |David Rothkopf

What is the job of the American judiciary? If you said to decide cases based on the law and the U.S. Constitution, you would be correct—unless you’re playing by MAGA rules. Rabid supporters of Donald Trump, and the president himself, have a different view of what judges are for. In their opinion, judges should be loyalists, backing whatever the president does, no matter how unconstitutional. And they’re putting us all in jeopardy.

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | David Rothkopf

There is no doubt that the current global economic crisis was triggered by a doddering old man who doesn’t understand modern markets or even basic economics. It is also clear that he is out of his depth in his current role, an enfeebled man growing weaker by the day. The question is however, whether the man in question is America’s president Donald Trump or whether it is Uncle Sam himself. Is this a case of a president who is not really all there, or a superpower that is over the hill?

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | David Rothkopf

Oh yes, my brothers and sisters, it is a golden age, just as promised. But it is not exactly the kind of golden age we were hoping for. It is a golden age for bad presidenting. It is a golden age for crappy leaders making crappy decisions. It is a golden age for corruption and destruction. It is a golden age for billionaires f--king over America and the world. And as it happens, it is also a golden age for gold, because that’s what the world buys when we’re all heading to Hell in a handbasket.