The Truth About Trade Deficits: Why They’re Not Always a Bad Thing

🇺🇸 The Truth About Trade Deficits: Why They’re Not Always a Bad Thing By Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva | May 6, 2025 Donald Trump likes to frame trade as a war. A scoreboard. A zero-sum game where one country wins and another loses. When he talks about trade deficits, it’s often with a snarl—as …

The Hitler: Why Every Generation Gets One — And How to Stop Ours

The Hitler: Why Every Generation Gets One — And How to Stop Ours By Janet Kira Lessin & Minerva 1. Under Siege: When Judges, Mayors, and Truth Itself Are Targets They started with Judge Boasberg’s daughter. Before that, Governor Gretchen Whitmer. And now, they’re coming for sanctuary city mayors, for journalists, for prosecutors. This isn’t …

From Trade War to Human Collapse: How Trump’s Second Term Is Gutting the Soul of America

From Trade War to Human Collapse: How Trump’s Second Term Is Gutting the Soul of America By Janet Kira Lessin & Minerva In the early months of Donald Trump’s second term, interconnected crises cascaded through the American economy and society. What started as an aggressive trade war strategy rapidly became a humanitarian disaster. As tariffs …

The Price of Truth: Why Trump Is Trying to Gag Amazon Over Tariff Transparency

The Price of Truth: Why Trump Is Trying to Gag Amazon Over Tariff Transparency What happens when you try to tell Americans why everything costs more? You get called “hostile.” By Janet Kira Lessin Do you want to know why your groceries cost more, why the empty shelves in stores used to overflow, and why …

The Silent War on America: How Trump and the Authoritarian Elite Are Taking Everything From You

The Silent War on America: How Trump and the Authoritarian Elite Are Taking Everything From You By Janet Kira Lessin & Minerva Across America, people are waking up to empty shelves, soaring prices, broken services, and a growing sense that something fundamental has gone terribly wrong. This isn’t the result of a natural disaster or …

No, Trump Isn’t Just Another President — He’s the Caesar of a New American Empire

🔥 No, Trump Isn’t Just Another President — He’s the Caesar of a New American Empire By Janet Kira Lessin | April 24, 2025 Ingrid Jacques of USA TODAY recently accused The New York Times of unfairly comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. But let’s be clear: this isn’t about satire. This isn’t about media …

Why Project 2025 and Trumpism Could Be Even Worse Than Hitler

Why Project 2025 and Trumpism Could Be Even Worse Than Hitler By Janet Kira Lessin, with MinervaApril 2025 America stands today at the edge of an unprecedented crossroads. Project 2025, a sweeping plan backed by the Heritage Foundation and other extremist conservative organizations, is not merely another political platform. It is a comprehensive blueprint to …

Trump’s Assault on the Rule of Law: The Dangerous Defiance of the Supreme Court

How authoritarian power grabs, generational trauma, and historical amnesia threaten to unravel the foundations of American democracy. Introduction: It Feels Like Groundhog Day — But with Higher Stakes For many Baby Boomers, War Babies, and Gen Xers, watching today’s authoritarian movements rise again feels like a surreal rerun of an old nightmare. We — or …

The King of Chaos: How Trump’s Delusions, Protected by Power, Threaten the World

The King of Chaos: How Trump’s Delusions, Protected by Power, Threaten the World ✨ Introduction: The Crisis We Must Name Across centuries, America has lived by myths: myths of freedom, equality, and opportunity for all. But beneath the surface, another, darker current has always flowed — one of controlled extremism, class division, racialized fear, and …

When Did America Become So Cruel?

By Janet Kira Lessin When Did America Become So Cruel? By Janet Kira Lessin As I watch the headlines roll in like waves of sadness, I ask myself: When did America become so cruel?Not just indifferent. Not just hard-hearted. But deliberately, devastatingly cruel. Yes, I understand the legal argument.Yes, I understand that people who enter …