What happens when the highest court in the land removes every legal check on the presidency — and the man who benefits has no intention of showing restraint?

In a series of landmark rulings — Trump v. United States, Trump v. Anderson, Trump v. CASA, and more — the Supreme Court built something the Founders never imagined: a presidency effectively shielded from criminal prosecution, insulated from electoral accountability, and freed from the financial ethics rules designed to prevent corruption. Then it handed the keys to Donald Trump.

The Grifter-In-Chief is the story of what came next.

Drawing on blockchain data, congressional records, federal filings, and investigative reporting, this book follows the money through every arm of the Trump second term:

1. The $TRUMP memecoin that transferred nearly $2 billion from retail investors to family-controlled wallets.

2. The pardon pipeline where access to clemency carried an unofficial price.

3. The no-bid contracts that turned the federal government into a vendor for Trump-adjacent businesses.

4. The defense deals and international mining ventures run by the president's sons.

5. The foreign billions flowing into Trump-linked funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and beyond.

At the center of it all is a simple and damning question: when a president cannot be prosecuted, cannot be removed from the ballot, and cannot be sued for accepting foreign gifts — what is there to stop him from treating the Oval Office as a personal money machine?

The Grifter-In-Chief is not a partisan polemic. It is a documented account of the most profitable presidency in American history — chapter by chapter, dollar by dollar — and a reckoning with what the collapse of constitutional accountability looks like in practice.

Includes:

- The Supreme Court rulings that created a law-free zone around the presidency.

- The $TRUMP and $MELANIA memecoins — how they worked, who lost, and who cashed out.

- World Liberty Financial and the stablecoin loophole.

- The pardon pipeline and the price of presidential clemency.

- No-bid contracts and the imperial capital.

- Don Jr., Eric Trump, and the Pentagon's money.

- The Qatar jet, the Saudi billions, and the arms bazaar.

- Mar-a-Lago as a seat of government — and a profit center.

"The Supreme Court created a law-free zone around the president of the United States. Donald Trump stepped into that zone with both feet."

74,702 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses in a single year. The Fentanyl Files is the definitive account of how that happened, and why it has not stopped.

Author Merv Moore spent years tracing the full length of the fentanyl supply chain, from the chemical labs of China and the cartel boardrooms of Sinaloa to the desert corridors of Arizona, the encrypted dark web marketplaces, and the grief-stricken small towns of Middle America. What he found was not a drug problem. It was a system, engineered for profit, and operating at industrial scale.

Part investigative journalism, part human tragedy, and part policy reckoning, The Fentanyl Files takes readers inside every link in that deadly chain. Moore introduces the Mexican cartels that abandoned heroin the moment they discovered fentanyl could be manufactured for pennies and sold for fortunes. He follows the scouts, the middlemen, the pill press operators, and the dark web vendors who keep the supply flowing. He sits with the mothers, grandfathers, and siblings who are raising the children that the crisis left behind.

But Moore does not stop at the human wreckage. He goes inside DEA strike force raids and federal sentencing hearings. He examines the political and legal absurdities that keep lifesaving tools like fentanyl test strips illegal in sixteen states. He travels to Portugal and British Columbia to study the public health models that are actually saving lives, and asks the hard question: if we know what works, why won't we do it?

The Fentanyl Files does not offer easy answers. It offers the truth, told through the voices of the people living it, and a clear-eyed examination of a crisis that will not end until America decides it has had enough.

For readers of Empire of Pain, Dreamland, and Sam Quinones, this is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the defining public health catastrophe of our time.

What if anxiety is not your problem? What if it is America's?

More than half of American adults now report clinical levels of anxiety. One in five carries a diagnosed anxiety disorder. In 2024 alone, 43% of adults said they felt more anxious than the year before. Among teenagers, nearly one in three already meets the criteria for a diagnosable anxiety disorder. These are not the statistics of a mental health challenge. They are the data points of a national emergency.

ANXIOUS NATION: Why America Is the Most Stressed Country on Earth and What We Can Do About It is a sweeping, rigorously researched investigation into how the United States became the most anxiety-ridden wealthy nation on the planet, and what it will take to change it.

This is not a self-help book. There are no five-step plans, no morning routines, no breathing exercises dressed up as solutions to a systemic catastrophe. Instead, ANXIOUS NATION does what almost no other book on this subject dares to do: it follows the anxiety back to its roots.

Chapter by chapter, the book dismantles the comforting lie that American anxiety is a personal failing to be managed through medication and mindfulness. It names the real culprits. The $5.6 trillion wellness industry that profits from the very stress it promises to cure. The social media platforms whose business models depend on keeping users in a state of emotional activation. The healthcare maze that charges Americans more to treat anxiety than any other wealthy nation, while delivering worse outcomes. The workplace culture that glorifies overwork while stripping away every safety net that might allow a worker to breathe. The political polarization that has turned family dinners, workplaces, and entire communities into theaters of ambient threat.

ANXIOUS NATION also confronts what researchers call the Anxiety Floor, the new baseline of dread that millions of Americans can never get below, regardless of how hard they work, how responsibly they behave, or how carefully they manage their finances. This phenomenon, nearly unique among wealthy nations, represents a fundamental rupture in the American social contract.

The book examines anxiety across every dimension of American life:

The Doomscroll Loop: How 24-hour news cycles and algorithmically optimized social media have hijacked the human nervous system and why the American information environment is uniquely toxic compared to media cultures in peer nations.

The Childhood Anxiety Pipeline: How America is raising the most stressed generation in its history, through academic hypercompetition, school shooter drills, social media comparison culture, and the near-total erosion of unstructured childhood.

The Loneliness Corridor: How the collapse of third places, churches, union halls, civic organizations, and neighborhood institutions has left Americans without the social infrastructure that cushions stress in every other developed country.

The Geography of Anxiety: Why the most stressed states share overlapping conditions of poverty, uninsurance, weak labor markets, and healthcare deserts, and why your zip code may be the single greatest determinant of your stress level.

The Anxiety-Body Connection: How chronic stress is driving cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, shortened lifespans, and a measurable racial health gap rooted in the physiological cost of systemic inequality.

But ANXIOUS NATION does not end with the diagnosis. The final section of the book turns to evidence, not optimism theater, but hard, comparative, policy-grounded evidence about what actually works. From Denmark's social trust infrastructure to New Zealand's national wellbeing framework, from Scotland's community mental health investment to individual American cities already experimenting with structural solutions, the book maps a realistic path forward at the individual, employer, community, and policy levels.

This is the book for every American who has ever wondered why they feel this way despite doing everything right. It is for the parents losing sleep over their children's futures, the workers who cannot afford to stop, the young adults reconsidering whether this country is where they want to build a life, and the policymakers, clinicians, and civic leaders who understand that treating symptoms while ignoring causes is not medicine. It is managed decline.

America is not tired. America is terrified. And it does not have to be.

ANXIOUS NATION is the diagnosis this country has been waiting for, and the beginning of the conversation that could finally change it.

What if the biggest tax bill in a generation was designed, from the first page to the last, to make you think you won while someone else took everything?

That is not a conspiracy theory. It is the legislative record.

THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL EXPOSED is a line-by-line, number-by-number dissection of the most consequential and deceptive piece of tax legislation in modern American history. It does not rely on partisan talking points. It relies on the actual text of the bill, the actual dollar figures, and the one thing Congress was counting on you never doing: the math.

Here is what the math shows.

The permanent provisions, the ones locked into law forever with no expiration date and no sunset clause, flow almost entirely to corporations, billionaires, and the wealthiest dynasties in America. The $1.3 trillion cost of making the corporate tax rate permanently 21 percent. The $1 trillion pass-through deduction expansion that allows wealthy business owners to shield even more income from taxation. The estate tax exemption raised to $30 million per couple, ensuring that billionaire dynasties can pass their fortunes to heirs without paying a single dollar while the median American family holds $192,000 in total wealth. The carried interest loophole, expanded. Bonus depreciation, restored. International tax giveaways, made permanent. Every provision that benefits the already wealthy is written in ink that does not fade.

And what did working families receive?

Two hundred dollars per child added to the child tax credit. Three dollars and eighty-five cents per week. A temporary tip deduction that expires in 2028. A temporary overtime deduction that expires in 2028. A temporary senior deduction that expires in 2028. A temporary auto loan deduction for American-made cars that expires in 2028. A modest standard deduction increase that barely keeps pace with inflation.

Notice the pattern. Everything for working families has an expiration date. Everything for the wealthy does not.

But the cruelest architecture of this bill is not what it gives or takes. It is when.

This book exposes the 2027 Time Bomb buried inside the legislation, a deliberate sequencing of pain designed to detonate after the 2026 midterm elections and again after the 2028 presidential election. Before you vote in 2026, the economy looks fine, your small temporary credits are in your pocket, and the campaign ads are already calling it a win for working families. After you vote, the Medicaid work requirements begin. SNAP eligibility tightens. States face impossible shortfalls. Six-month eligibility recertification paperwork overwhelms the system and people who should be covered lose coverage anyway. And then, right on schedule in 2028 and 2029, your temporary deductions vanish and your taxes return to where they were. The wealthy? Still paying 21 percent. Permanently.

This book covers the full scope of the legislation including:

Who actually benefits from every major permanent provision and by how much. Why pass-through deductions disproportionately benefit white wealthy business owners. How the estate tax changes cement generational dynasties while ordinary families pay full rates. The precise timeline of when each working-family benefit expires and what replaces it. How Medicaid and SNAP changes were structured to maximize political cover and minimize accountability. What the cumulative 10-year cost of the permanent provisions means for the federal deficit and who will be asked to pay it. What historical precedents exist for legislation of this design and what happened to the families who trusted it.

This is not a book about politics. It is a book about arithmetic. It is for the single mother calculating whether the $200 child tax credit increase covers her new insurance copay. It is for the 58-year-old worker wondering why his food assistance paperwork suddenly got so complicated. It is for the small business owner who was told this bill was for people like him and is now doing the numbers for the first time. It is for every American who suspects they were sold something that does not add up and wants the actual figures in plain language.

The wealthy got permanence. You got an expiration date.

They were betting you would never check the math. This book checks it for you.

Something is wrong with the job market, and most people can feel it — they just can't name it.

Hiring freezes that never lift. Entry-level positions that vanish without explanation. Experienced professionals quietly pushed out and replaced by software no one wants to discuss in public. The automation wave isn't a distant threat on the horizon. It already made landfall. The question is no longer whether your industry will be affected — it's whether you'll recognize the warning signs before your livelihood disappears with the rest.

In The Automation Cliff, author Merv Moore strips away the reassuring myths sold by economists, tech companies, and higher education institutions and replaces them with a clear-eyed account of what automation actually does to labor markets, how it spreads through industries in ways most workers never anticipate, and which careers are already crumbling beneath a professional veneer of normalcy.

This is not a book about robots taking over the world. It's a book about what's happening right now — in offices, hospitals, law firms, financial institutions, and college campuses — and what you can do about it before the cliff gives way beneath you.

Inside, you will discover:

Which jobs are already functionally eliminated, even if the titles still exist on paper

The four categories of work and exactly where your career falls on the vulnerability spectrum

Why the "AI creates more jobs than it destroys" argument is statistically dishonest — and dangerously comforting

The surprising careers that are genuinely resistant to automation, and the common thread that connects them

A step-by-step career audit framework to measure your own exposure before the market does it for you

The three career positions that consistently win during periods of technological disruption

How to build a reinvention roadmap that moves you into durable, high-value work — without starting over from scratch

The Automation Cliff is written for professionals who are done being patronized by optimistic headlines and ready for an honest conversation about the future of work. Knowledge alone won't save your career. But the right knowledge, applied early enough, absolutely can.

The edge is closer than you think. Start walking back from it now.

The United States has long defined itself as the world's most coveted destination, a nation built on the promise that the tired, the poor, and the ambitious will find here a life worth living. But a growing wave of Americans have made a different calculation. They are leaving, not for adventure or a gap year, but because the arithmetic of American life has stopped making sense.

In "Leaving America: Why a Record Number of Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship, Seeking Residency Abroad, and What It Means for the Country They're Leaving Behind," journalist and researcher Merv Moore takes an unflinching, deeply reported look at one of the most consequential and least discussed social shifts of our era.

Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Americans across every demographic, Moore profiles the real people behind the statistics: the emergency room nurse in Houston who received a $187,000 bill for her son's routine appendectomy and relocated to Melbourne; the Denver teachers who moved to New Zealand after their daughter sent a text from beneath her desk during a school lockdown; the young Black software developer who walked home from a coffee shop in his own neighborhood and was detained by police for forty-five minutes before choosing Lisbon over Oakland; the retired couple whose lifetime of careful saving still left them unable to afford growing old in America.

Moore goes beyond the human stories to trace the data, the policy failures, and the global competition for human capital that most American leaders refuse to acknowledge. He examines the IRS expatriation records showing an eightfold increase in formal renunciations since 2009, the nine million Americans already living abroad, the FATCA legislation that has turned citizenship into a financial liability for ordinary people living overseas, and the deliberate policies other nations have designed to welcome the Americans that the United States is quietly exporting.

The book confronts the systemic failures driving the exodus: a healthcare system that can bankrupt a family over a broken wrist; gun violence so normalized that children practice hiding from shooters before they learn to read fluently; a retirement system that has left millions one medical event away from poverty; a political culture of permanent dysfunction that has exhausted the hope of even its most loyal citizens.

Chapter by chapter, Moore profiles retirees in Mexico and Panama, young professionals in Berlin and Tokyo, entrepreneurs in Estonia and Medellín, Black Americans in Lisbon and Accra, and families who decided that another country would raise their children better than the one that still calls itself the greatest on earth.

"Leaving America" is not a celebration of departure or a condemnation of those who stay. It is a rigorous, compassionate, and often deeply moving investigation into what the emigration wave reveals about America in the 2020s. The people profiled here do not hate their country. Most of them still love it, with a complicated, grieving love made possible only by distance. They are not rejecting the American dream. They are looking for a place where it is still achievable.

The verdict of the departed is quiet, undeniable, and growing. This book asks what it will take for America to finally listen.

On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling that shattered more than two centuries of constitutional understanding. In a 6-3 decision split along partisan lines, the Court declared that presidents enjoy broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts, effectively placing the most powerful office in the world beyond the reach of the law. It was the moment the founders feared most, and the moment a captive Supreme Court made inevitable.

Above the Law is the definitive account of how America arrived at this precipice and what comes next.

With the precision of a legal scholar and the urgency of an investigative reporter, Merv Moore traces the full arc of this constitutional catastrophe: the immunity ruling that overturned two centuries of American legal precedent; the staggering expansion of presidential powers that now operate without criminal deterrence; the specific, documented mechanisms by which a president can enrich himself, his family, and his political allies while holding office; and the pay-for-play pardon economy that has turned the clemency power into a loyalty enforcement tool and a potential revenue stream.

Moore examines what the founding fathers actually built, and why they built it. Drawing on the Federalist Papers, the Constitutional Convention debates, and the writings of Madison, Hamilton, and Jefferson, he reconstructs the precise guardrails the founders designed to prevent any one person from attaining unchecked power. Then he shows, piece by piece, how the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority dismantled those guardrails while the country watched.

The book delivers a damning portrait of a Supreme Court that has ceased to function as an independent institution. From the Heritage Foundation's pipeline of ideologically vetted justices to the undisclosed luxury travel, real estate transactions, and private jet flights that entangled Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito with Republican megadonors, Moore documents how dark money, partisan loyalty, and ethical collapse transformed the nation's highest court into an arm of the conservative political movement.

At the heart of Above the Law is a chilling hypothetical: a detailed, legally grounded scenario depicting what a future president who fully understands and exploits these new powers could do to the American government. None of it requires breaking the law. Under the current legal architecture, all of it is the law.

Moore also presents the definitive accounting of Donald Trump's record of constitutional transgression across two terms, from the obstruction of the Mueller investigation to the events of January 6, from the abuse of the pardon power to the retention of classified documents. It is a case study in how far a president can push when the institutions designed to stop him have been weakened, captured, or corrupted.

Above the Law does not end in despair. Its final chapters map a serious reform agenda and argue, with clarity and conviction, that the same history that teaches us how democracies fall also teaches us that citizens who understand what is at stake have the power to change its course.

The founders gave us a republic, if we can keep it. This book is about what we stand to lose if we don't.

Millions of Americans are quietly running the same terrifying calculation: what they have saved, what they are projected to save, and what Social Security might deliver does not add up to the retirement they spent forty years working toward. The standard advice — save more, spend less, maybe work a few more years — offers diminishing returns. What almost nobody discusses is the most powerful lever available: where you choose to live.

The Frugal Expat is a practical, deeply personal, and occasionally funny guide to relocating to Southeast Asia and stretching a modest retirement income into a genuinely abundant life. Author Merv Moore spent four years doing exactly this, landing in Bohol, Philippines, with two suitcases and a reasonable amount of fear, and building a life that costs less than $1,500 a month while offering more comfort, more beauty, and more freedom than anything his US budget could have produced.

This book covers everything an honest guide must cover.

It starts with the uncomfortable questions: Is this life actually for you? Not everyone is suited for expat life, and Moore uses a frank self-assessment framework covering personality, health, relationships, and finances to help readers decide before they pack a single box. From there, it profiles five proven destinations in granular detail, including Bohol, Cebu, Chiang Mai in Thailand, Da Nang in Vietnam, and Penang in Malaysia, comparing each by cost, climate, healthcare, visa friendliness, safety, and quality of life.

The practical chapters leave nothing out. How to find a rental at local rates rather than tourist prices. How to navigate retirement visas in each country, including the Philippines SRRV, Thailand's Non-Immigrant O-A, and Malaysia's MM2H. How to move money internationally without hemorrhaging fees. How to access excellent, English-speaking healthcare that costs a fraction of what Americans pay at home. How to find community, build genuine friendships, and survive the waves of culture shock without washing back to shore.

The emotional chapters are equally honest. Moore writes about loneliness, the family weddings you will miss, the afternoons when you want to board a flight home, and the slow, surprising moment when a new country stops feeling foreign and starts feeling like yours.

The book closes with sample monthly budgets for three lifestyle tiers across all five destinations, a side-by-side comparison with equivalent US city costs, and a week-by-week 90-day launch plan that takes the reader from dreaming to boarding the plane.

The Frugal Expat is for anyone who suspects that the retirement they want is already funded, just waiting in a country they haven't considered yet.