Thursday, May 16, 2024

Call it ‘unileaderism:’ Trump’s foreign policy of one

From the G-7 dustup to the flashy photo shoot with Kim Jong-Un, U.S. foreign policy is now determined solely by the president's pettiest personal preferences.

Despite prosecutor’s attempts to stop her, Georgia woman keeps registering voters

Jim Crow endures in Georgia as voter suppression efforts persist across the state. But get-out-the-vote activists are undaunted.

Killing the dream 50 years on

Perhaps conspiracy theories had been put on ice for awhile, but the nation only became more divided over Vietnam.

An urgent message to Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Japan

An open letter from the United State of America.

Why Trump is right and wrong about trade deficit

While Trump has been harping on trade deficit for thirty years – he was complaining about the Japanese in the 1980s – he’s vastly oversimplifying the issue and the solutions.

The constitutional crisis is now

We are no longer trying to avert a constitutional crisis. We are living one.

Scapegoating Iran

"What good would come from destabilizing Iran? What would America get out of that?”

‘Establishment wins’ are bad for Democrats – and the country

Even if they take back the presidency in 2020, the Democratic establishment’s ideas will once again fail to meet the great challenges of our time, politically or as policy.

California’s low turnout suggests voters need a better reason to show up

Still, there are signs of progress that could lead to increased turnout come November, including 1,800 women running for federal and state offices.

Big Man politics, Africa to America

“Elect a Congress and Senate of Democrats next fall. Articles of impeachment are already in hand.”