Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Tag: Donald Trump

Trump’s presidency, the demise of the major parties, and the need...

It’s on all of us on the left, and in the rest of the Democratic base to pick up the pieces and to build a movement of resistance and a new political party of the left to fight for real progressive change and real democracy.

If Bernie won democratic primary, would we now be looking at...

Would the results of Election 2016 have been different had the race been between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump?

How the rest of the world is reacting to Trump’s victory

Hint: it’s pretty much as you’d expect.

Who won in 2016? Big money.

Neither Clinton nor Trump took on the role of corporate mega-donors this election.

Beyond future shock

We cannot allow this mass expulsion of vitriol and despair define our futures. We are stronger than that.

Donald Trump dismantles Hillary Clinton’s big money machine

Republican nominee scores upset despite being outraised, outspent.

The media and the earthquake

Our critic despairs of political coverage ever being put back together again.

We need to understand what happened on election night, and fast

This election was a rejection of the status quo, which was all that Clinton promised.

We were all outsiders in Trump’s America once — even Trump

Trump’s brand of bigotry goes back a long way in this country.

Trump’s three biggest enablers

Donald Trump has poisoned America, but he didn’t do it alone. He had help from the GOP, the media, and the Democratic Party.

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The General James M. Gavin coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the country. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

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.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage at Landing Zone 1. Photo: SpaceX (CC0)

The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

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.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A satellite view of Tehran, Iran. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran

The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.