Tag: Donald Trump
Trump’s absurd plan to dismantle government’s protections
This is not an approach to governing, it is about dismantling what government is for so that an already-wealthy few are free to fleece, scam, harm and pollute in the name of greed.
Will Trump roll back efforts to normalize relations between Havana &...
Trump has vowed to withdraw from diplomatic relations if he believes his new demands go unmet in the future.
Waiting for the barbarians
There will be rebels. They will live in the shadows. The state will have little tolerance of them. They will be our hope.
Trump abandons campaign promise to penalize outsourcing, offers tax breaks instead
Donald Trump is offering sweet incentives to stop Carrier from outsourcing jobs. Bernie Sanders is promising strict penalties.
The Manhattan White House, the Secret Service, and the painted bikini...
A Journey to the President-Elect’s Private “Public” Park
Trump’s seven techniques to control the media
Historically, these seven techniques have been used by demagogues to erode the freedom and independence of the press.
Trump is ignoring daily intelligence briefings, relying on ‘a number of...
His spokeswoman thinks he is getting enough information through phone calls with world leaders.
Euphemism as journalism: Distracting the audience by focusing on Trump’s skill...
Top-of-the-line political journalists marveled at Trump’s ability to create distractions while they kept themselves—and their audience—distracted from substantive matters.
The Paris Pact might save the climate from Trump
Because of their leadership, the climate might be able to withstand what havoc Trump may wreak.
A government that has plunged this country into a state of...
It is entirely possible that the process has now gone too far and cannot be reversed.
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EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...
Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls
The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
The first trillionaire – no big deal?
Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water
A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's