Tag: politics

Although Donald Trump won the White House with a vow to reinvigorate a manufacturing base essential for America’s future, he failed to stanch the torrent of U.S. corporations absconding to countries with abysmal working conditions and lax environmental regulations.

Coronavirus and racism combined with online charters would create a plague of injustice that will never be wiped out.

"If we're serious about a sustainable, just, and prosperous future, we have to put our money where our mouth is."

Only the greatest criminal con artist would dream of leaning on law and order when all else fails.

We are in the midst of an existential political crisis, one that too many Americans blithely shrug off because they do not—or cannot—believe the kind of power seizures, purges, and police-state repression that has happened in many other countries can ever happen here.

Is this sending a message to would-be future attackers that there will be no consequences for their actions?

And keep in mind, when assessing this world I’m going to leave behind to those I hold near and dear, that Covid-19 is hardly the worst of it. Behind that pandemic is something so much worse.

"The fact that our nation is the only advanced industrial country without universal healthcare cannot be blamed on Republican obstruction alone. It was also caused by Democratic leaders who've spent decades catering to corporate interests."

In certain cases, preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—can devastate public health.

As the COVID-19 death toll mounts, McConnell refuses to advocate for ordinary Americans.