Tag: Election 2016
Green party’s Jill Stein on obsotacles to vote recount: “This is...
Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein requested recounts in three states where Donald Trump narrowly beat Hillary Clinton: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Trump’s creeping tyranny
We must join together to condemn these acts. Has Trump no decency?
The parentized child presidency
Those of us who didn’t vote for Trump--the cast-off, disadvantaged children--will have to monitor Trump very closely.
Augustus Trumpus
As America's working stiffs know, if you're not at the table, you're on the menu.
Donald Trump in the White House
It is difficult at this point to know how Trump will govern since so many of his campaign pledges were contradictory or impossible.
Hillary Clinton’s Inaugural Address
Here’s what we’d like to hear her say before Donald Trump takes office — a call for a shadow government that will watchdog everything he and Congress do.
The election from hell has ended; now America’s nightmare begins
The American people are going to be living in a period in this nation’s history that will determine what kind of a nation and society this will be.
The Gettysburg Address, slightly updated
Now we are engaged in a great democratic battle, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can tolerate four years of Trumpery.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.