Tag: President Donald Trump
Trump touts long-shot, can’t-lose gambit: ‘How to overcome a rigged, corrupt...
Honor is due: Time to Make Elections Fair Again. MEFA! Won’t be any harder than building that friggin’ wall.
If America doesn’t reverse its current course, we are headed for...
We have to get all sides involved on the same page, talking to each other about how these crises can be brought to an end.
What will it take to defeat Trumpism?
Learning lessons from the end of the Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and Saddam’s Iraq...
Watch: Voting by mail is patriotic—no matter what lies Trump tells
Call out the hypocrisy. Remember, if your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be trying to stop it.
Top 6 reasons Trump’s racist attack on Ilhan Omar at empty...
African Muslims have been central to American history and American success. Ilhan Omar has been an American citizen longer than Melania Trump, and stands in a tradition of contributing to this country.
Did Trumpers have a clue what presidential chaos meant? Worse still:...
Holding up that Bible with extreme awkwardness gave away the game: was ever his scheming, stupid crassness more visible?
From Hurricane Maria to Covid, gas lobbyist-turned-Trump energy lawyer uses crises...
“This rule change would be a massive giveaway to polluters, so it's no surprise to see it being pushed by a fossil fuel lobbyist who's now part of the Trump administration.”
The deadly Fox News-Trump syndicate
It’s easy to feel outraged and defeated by Fox News. But it’s important to understand its formula for misleading Americans, particularly in the crisis we’re in.
“I can’t speak negatively about the president,” says official charged with...
President Donald Trump’s purge of watchdogs is on the mind of one of the newly hired officials charged with overseeing the more than $2 trillion CARES Act.
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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.
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.
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.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
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.