Friday, September 11, 2026

Tag: Inauguration 2017

#DAPL mogul cut $250,000 check to Trump’s inauguration

Several other companies that later benefited from executive actions taken by President Trump also donated to the inauguration.

Donald Trump inauguration bankrolled by corporate giants

Many companies, executives have business before federal government.

Exclusive: A cold sense of dread: Inaugural 2017

What is it that draws people to this man?

Inauguration day: Letter to a Trump voter

Here’s one thing we can already agree on: With this inauguration, our nation and our world are about to change forever.

Big protests are fine, but here’s a to-do list for lasting...

After the inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington, what comes next? To make real change, we’ll need to build power where we live.

Imagining a Sanders presidency beginning on Jan. 20

It was not your normal inaugural address to be sure!

Nearly 60 legislators boycotting Trump’s inauguration

At least 59 House Democrats have announced that they will not attend Trump’s inauguration on Friday.

‘Tis the nightmare before chaos

When rational essays struggle to capture all the madness, what other choice for writers but satiric sadness?

The consent of the governed

We have entered a new era, a presidency of protest and an increasingly illegitimate government. We have the power to withdraw our consent from hate and exploitation and build love and prosperity.

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The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
The US Capitol, where Senator Bernie Sanders has convened a bipartisan briefing on AI risk for September 16. Photo: Martin Falbisoner, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger

Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
Satellite imagery of Lake Mead shows the reservoir's shrinking shoreline amid ongoing Southwest drought. Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, via Wikimedia Commons

US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.