Psychological Profile of Autocrats A 2020 study titled "Psychopathology of Dictators," published by Rivista Il Sileno Onlus, offers a vivid examination of four infamous dictators: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. By weaving together their life stories, behavior patterns, and clinical insights, the study reveals a common set of psychological traits among these leaders: narcissism, paranoia, a lack of empathy, grandiosity, manipulativeness, and sadism.

It’s no secret that Donald Trump rarely acts without a hidden agenda. His latest move, asking the Supreme Court to uphold a federal law banning gun ownership by illegal drug users, including those who regularly use marijuana, raises a deeply suspicious question: Is this about public safety, or political control? On its face, the case seems like a contradiction. Trump has long positioned himself as a champion of the Second Amendment, rallying his base with promises to protect gun rights.

This coming Saturday, in towns and cities across America, ordinary citizens will take to the streets. They’ll march against deportations, against creeping authoritarianism, and for the simple belief that dignity belongs to everyone. Yet instead of engaging with their message, Trump and radical right Republicans have already reached for a familiar boogeyman: Antifa. This is a dangerous distortion, one that trades truth for fear and civic engagement for conspiracy.

This weekend’s No Kings demonstrations aren’t just about resisting one policy. They’re about confronting a dangerous pattern of governance that threatens the soul of American democracy. At the center of that pattern is Trump’s mass deportation agenda: a policy rooted in racial scapegoating, cloaked in false promises of law and order, and weaponized to distract from economic stagnation, legal scrutiny, and institutional decay.

Sometimes I catch myself feeling like I was born in the wrong era. When I look around today, I barely recognize the world compared to my childhood. Everything seems driven by money and fame now - just look at reality TV shows that make entertainment out of humiliating people. It feels like dishonesty has crept into every corner of life, from the ads we see to the way politicians talk to us.

"We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military." — Darrell Ballard, South Shore resident If someone had described a nighttime assault involving helicopters, drones, flashbangs, and chainsaws, with hundreds of masked agents storming a residential building, I’d have assumed it was a scene from Moscow or Caracas. But it wasn’t. It was Chicago. And it wasn’t a foreign army.

It's been 254 days since Trump took office, and honestly? The constitutional chaos he's created makes Nixon look like an amateur. Let me break it down: Trump’s Assault on the Constitution Trump has trampled core constitutional principles with calculated indifference. He went after Democratic law firms (a federal judge ruled his executive orders violated the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, and the Separation of Powers.).

Have you ever stood at the edge of a swamp? It’s a place that breathes decay. The air is thick and sour, clinging to your skin. The water doesn’t ripple. It oozes. Beneath its surface, things writhe and feed, unseen but felt. The smell is ancient, like something that’s been rotting for centuries. The creatures that live there don’t walk. They slither.

Introduction:The Pyramid of Betrayal When I look at Donald Trump, I don’t see a leader. I see cruelty personified. I see a man who views empathy as weakness, compassion as inconvenience, and human suffering as irrelevant unless it serves his personal gain. He sits atop a pyramid of power, gazing down at the rest of us with indifference. In his world, people are tools, useful only if they flatter, fund, or fight for him.

The press and democracy have always been closely linked. Journalists aren’t meant to cozy up to power. Their job is to hold it accountable. But today, media suppression and press freedom are under threat. Not just from hostile rhetoric, but from coordinated efforts to intimidate, punish, and control the flow of information. Just look at what’s happening with the FCC. Trump’s appointee, Chairman Brendan Carr, publicly warned ABC over Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue criticizing the administration’s response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Trump’s presidency has been marked by brazen defiance of constitutional norms, but this lawlessness didn’t begin in the Oval Office. It’s just the latest chapter in Trump’s long, well-documented history of manipulating the legal system to further personal power, punish critics and evade accountability. Trump and his businesses were entangled in over 4,000 legal cases across federal and state courts from 1973 to 2016…

On September 2, 2025, Trump ordered an unauthorized military strike on a small vessel in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. The boat was allegedly carrying narcotics for the Tren de Aragua gang, a criminal organization with roots in Venezuela’s prison system. The strike killed 11 people instantly, and the footage was posted by Trump on Truth Social, accompanied by the warning: “BEWARE”.

“I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense and a smart person.” That’s what Trump said last week while defending his decision to deploy National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. Let’s be real. That statement is completely inane. Of course he’s not quite a dictator yet. But it's not for lack of trying. The man craves unchecked power and you don’t have to dig deep to find dozens of examples of him grabbing for it.

Donald Trump is rattled. With the 2026 midterms approaching, he sees the writing on the wall. Republicans could lose the House. Maybe the Senate too. And he knows what comes next. That’s why we’re witnessing the early stages of the Trump 2026 Election Coup, a desperate attempt to rewrite the rules, suppress the vote and cling to power before accountability catches up.

Donald Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize. That’s certainly a notion worth pondering, preferably while trying to keep a straight face. I gave it a fair shot. Sat down at the computer, searched for a list of Americans who’ve earned that honor in recent decades. Then, with pen in hand and optimism in short supply, I tried to draft a list of significant accomplishments Trump could credibly claim, something that might elevate his appeal to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.