by Erin Reed | Jun 20, 2026 | FTC, Gender-Affirming Care, health care, LGBTQ Rights, McCarthyism, Op-Ed, Red Scare, Trans Rights, Trump Administration
Between the 1940s and 1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy’s investigations targeted Americans for their beliefs, their associations, and their speech. The mechanism was not primarily criminal prosecution — it was investigation, subpoena, and the threat of institutional destruction. Its goal was compliance through fear. That fire burned through Hollywood…
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by Sasha Abramsky | Dec 17, 2025 | Donald Trump, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, FEC, Federal Election commission, Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, Op-Ed, Regulation, Regulations, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Supreme Court, Trump Administration
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this month in a case that could dramatically strengthen presidential authority over federal regulatory agencies for the decades to come. The case, Trump v. Slaughter, grew out of President Donald Trump’s firing of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) board member, Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat — whom Trump himself had appointed during his first term in…
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