Thursday, July 9, 2026

NYT steers dems away from the obvious formula for defeating Trump

Thomas Edsall’s demographic analysis is almost always misleading (FAIR.org, 2/10/15, 10/9/15, 6/5/16, 3/30/18, 7/24/19)—and his latest column for the New York Times (8/28/19) is no exception.

Traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump Iran post raising insider trading concerns

Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.

How democrats and progressives undermined the potential of the Biden-Putin summit

Progressives went along with Democratic Party leaders and corporate liberal media as they fueled the momentum toward a nuclear doomsday.

Year-end insights galore, but what will we, can we learn from calamity?

On display: full combat between the forces of ignorance, bigotry, deception and propaganda vs. knowledge, understanding, wisdom and besieged aspirations of justice and equality.

The good, the bad and the ugly: Medical heroes, anti-maskers, and rotten politicians

We know who the Good are, they are exemplary, the very best of Americans. We know that the bad and ugly are personified by one Donald. J. Trump, someone who bends or breaks any law that stands in his way.

The sport of plutocrats

Golf is Trump.

Extreme poverty cut in half? Only in the minds of the capitalists

The median wealth of the world's adults is $2,222, down from $3,248 at the end of 2007.

A progressive response to Trump’s inaugural

It takes creativity to fashion an effective strategy that would restore democratic power to all people equally.

Once again, Trump diplomacy serves Kremlin interests

Somebody might begin to wonder why so much of what he is doing benefits only our principal adversary – and inflicts permanent damage on our own country.

Trump wants to go to heaven. But Heaven’s gate will close when he tries

If Trump wants to get into Heaven, I think that he would have to find a way to erase all the bad things he has done to try to destroy America’s democracy.