Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Tag: President Donald Trump

The invisible candidate and the progressive lion

As Americans on the progressive left might have expected, the one politician who is responding with the seriousness and the kind of reassuring competence that his fellow citizens need in such a difficult time, is Bernie Sanders.

Trump, power, and Darwin

This is beginning to look like natural selection may be working against the Trump University plan for reëlection.

Trump will not use Defense Production Act to order manufacturing of...

With prices rising, supplies lacking, and healthcare officials working endlessly, the importance of vital medical equipment should not be negotiable.

Don’t let pharma make us pay twice for COVID-19 treatments

The research we’ve funded is going to be critical in the coming months. We’ve already paid for it. Let’s demand that Congress change the law so that we don’t have to pay again.

Who will win the US presidential election 2020: A prediction as...

There is no doubt that Bernie will give a tough competition to Trump but if Russia provides any kind of data support to trump, he will outplace Bernie.

America faces two crises: The coronavirus escalation and Trump in charge...

Message to Trump: lead, follow, or just get the hell out of the way.

Does Russia have Donald Trump’s sex tape?

Trump is the only U.S. president who doesn’t see Putin as a threat to the United States.

Will he get a second term?

We can defeat Trump and his enablers by building a multiracial, multi-class coalition.

Insurance industry corrects Trump: Actually, we’re only waiving copays for coronavirus...

“Heaven forbid they miss a chance to bankrupt sick people.”

Trump calls COVID-19 “foreign virus” as lack of universal healthcare makes...

Robert Pollin, distinguished university professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says the lack of universal healthcare in the U.S. is exacerbating the coronavirus crisis due to “the absurdity that people cannot feel confident that they are going to get medical treatment” when they need it most.

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Candace Owens speaking in 2018. Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

These women don’t trust politicians. They do trust Candace Owens.

The 19th interviewed half a dozen of her listeners, after a Media Matters report found her platforms grew 80 percent between January 2025 and March 2026 to roughly 10.9 million new followers.
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A week after Eastport banned data centers for 180 days, federal regulators accepted the...

The developer cut the plan from 400 acres to 27 and from 51 megawatts to 15 after FERC found four deficiencies, and comments close October 19.
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U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran by Targeting China & Tehran’s Other Top...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent named the plan Operation Economic Outcast on Monday and set no timeline or list of countries, and sanctions historian Nicholas Mulder says the reach into Iran's oil buyers puts the U.S.-China trade truce at risk.
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Joint Economic Committee Democrats put Trump’s 2026 oil and gas stock gains at up...

The same report totals $71.5 billion in extra gasoline spending since February 28, an average of $604 a family, and the White House says independent managers control the portfolio.