Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Tag: Donald Trump

The Working-Class Wounds Hidden Behind Trump Voters’ Racism

If we listen carefully to Trump’s supporters, we can hear their desire for progressive policies.

The GOP’s Love Affair With Its ‘Earthquake in a Box’

Breaking up is hard to do and Republicans just can't seem to quit their presumptive presidential candidate.

Trump is a William McKinley Protectionist, Not a Bernie Sanders Populist

Trump’s brand of protectionism doesn’t move America and the world forward. It turns the clock back to the Gilded Age. Don’t buy the con.

Paul Ryan’s Economic Plan

“Never underestimate the power of dogma when propagandistically spread about among people who do not know much history.”

EXCLUSIVE: The Hidden Billionaires behind Trump

The Foreclosure King, The Three-Headed Dog From Hell and Goldman Sachs

America Has a Republican Problem — and the Media Is Partly...

Donald Trump is a distraction from the fact that the mainstream media has pretended the GOP is a normal party with values just to the right. Now the country is paying the price.

The Most Important Election of Your Life

The real nightmare is likely to emerge in 2020 or thereafter, if a far more capable politician than Trump embraces similar retrograde positions rides America B into Washington.

Looming Brexit Mayhem Will Expose Disruptive TrumpThink

So, brace for reams of critical Brexit analysis, implying the UK cut off its nose to spite its face. And let’s never forget Trump’s high-risk, gambling world is “winning take all.” That means “losers gets nothing.” Hardly a great model for parenting, let alone large-scale, global business planning or trade or health for complex, modern nation-states. Gambling for adults works when betting disposable dollars on transient sporting events when the results are instantly known. Will voters in November here not add false flummery about Brexit shortfalls as another crack-brain spoke in Trump’s broken-down political wheelhouse?

There’s No More Denying It: Trump Is Openly Racist

The GOP candidate's brouhaha with a Mexican-American judge exposes him as a manic threat to anyone he dislikes.

A White Man Just Tried To Kill Trump. Why Aren’t You...

When it comes to Michael Sandford, who is white, the narrative appears to be playing out differently.

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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.
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The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
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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.