By Tom Carter

As a young attorney under Reagan, John Roberts aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act. Now the chief justice has finished the job.

Renowned singer-songwriter Jesse Welles releases The Nerd Reich, a country folks song about tech fascism and the Trump administration

Aquinas is key to understanding the Leonard Leo/John Roberts SCOTUS

The ultra-conservative Catholic organisation Opus Dei was founded a century ago in Spain. Today, it's an international movement with around 90,000 members. In its home country, it has managed to infil...

Papa Don't Pope: Why I'm Not Roman Catholic (and Why the Future is Protestant) [Wilson, Douglas] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Papa Don't Pope: Why I'm Not Roman Catholic (and Why the Future is Protestant)

Dolly Parton was an advocate for her L.G.B.T.Q. fans. She also understood them, a meaningful bond in places where such recognition was hard to find.

Pentagon says policy intended to clarify “chain of command issues” involving newly elected pope

A stunning reversal for a Republican Party that once raged at JFK for promising to keep his Catholicism out of the White House — eight weeks before Vance publishes a book on his Catholic conversion.

The influential right-wing podcaster spent four months in prison for defying a subpoena from the House panel investigating the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

A 16-year experiment has yielded none of Viktor Orban’s stated goals.

If Democrats win the majority, Trump’s authoritarian plan will be foiled — and he knows that.

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President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on one of his former most powerful allies in a rant on his Truth Social platform Tuesday afternoon."Sleazebag 'influencer' and lawyer Leonard Leo, who has ...

After ignoring Leo’s pleas on Venezuela, Trump is once again rattling sabers — this time at Cuba. In a tense standoff over oil and sovereignty, the first American pope is choosing the Cuban people.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...

WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation today launched the Free Enterprise Initiative, expanding the success of its Capital Markets Initiative and adding new staff to advance and defend economic freedom.

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was named in an allegation sent by email to two federal judges and discussed last August by federal prosecutors in New York, the Justice Department’s...

Just back from Denmark — where he warned against U.S. threats to Greenland — Cardinal Pietro Parolin blasted the “unacceptable” deaths of two Americans during an ICE operation in Minneapolis.

JD Vance, Leonard Leo, Kevin Roberts, Project 2025, the Leo Supreme Court, Patrick Deneen, Adrian Vermuele, Opus Dei, Nazi legal theorist…

My recent post on the Wyoming abortion originalism case engendered some online discourse from originalists.

"I did what I had to do," Richard Trahant told reporters after his punishment was upheld

First published April 4, 2024 on my Medium page. I’m reprinting my Leonard Leo columns on Substack. As of Sept. 2025 The New York Times has never done a critical look at Leonard Leo.

A less-recognized campaign finance case from 2010 paved the way for the super PACs frequently used by billionaires such as Elon Musk to spend big on elections.

Trump’s health is failing. J.D. Vance isn’t waiting. He’s been groomed for this moment by billionaires, bishops, and dark money networks.

The foundation and its leaders see Trump not for his policies, but as a means to embed Orbán’s oppressive ideology within the U.S. political framework.

By Tom Carter

by Tom Carter

“Pay no attention to the roly poly bat faced boy behind the altar”