Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Tag: President Joe Biden

Biden’s golden opportunity to reverse course on China

Improving relations with China could lower inflation, isolate Vladimir Putin, and accelerate the transition to a clean energy future.

Biden refuses to mention the worsening dangers of nuclear war. Media...

“I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.”

Biden—the grinder president—gets whacked for not enough drama, charisma, or entertainment

One need not like Biden to appreciate that more self-absorbed Entertainers-in-chief represent a future of dangerously inept, indeed immoral chief executives.

SOTU recap: A few State of the Union promises I hope...

If these State of the Union promises come true, the country will take some practical steps forward to a brighter future.

Does stirring Biden rhetoric impede the new, improved, fascist mania—or reform...

Until Democrats wake up that their future and the country’s both depend on urgently slamming shut anti-democratic doors and empowering true majority rule, fine rhetoric falls flat.

Biden’s Summit for Democracy, a good idea hurt by compromise and...

It’s progress that needs to be defended.

Ten contradictions that plague Biden’s Democracy Summit

Just as the people of Venezuela have not elected or appointed Juan Guaidó as their president, the people of the world have not elected or appointed the United States as the president or leader of all Earthlings.

Biden signs executive order for a carbon-neutral federal government by 2050

The Biden administration’s efforts to reduce the federal government’s carbon emissions could have a ripple effect across the economy.

Biden continues drilling boom on public lands despite campaign pledge, analysis...

“The reality is that in the battle between the oil industry and Biden, the industry is winning.”

Does Biden’s lower approval rating mean Democrats should ‘move to the...

That “significant parts of the electorate are feeling leery of a sharp leftward push in the party.”

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Republicans can’t see the forest for the trees. Trump blocks their vision of the...

Yes, sometimes you can’t see the forest because of the trees. Republicans are so afraid of Trump that they have him on their minds all the time. Let’s call Trump the Trees.

Khanna unveils $12 trillion progressive plan to cut deficit and invest in working families

As Republicans push tax cuts for the wealthy, Rep. Ro Khanna releases a sweeping economic blueprint that targets Pentagon waste, corporate fraud, and billionaire loopholes to fund national priorities.

Trump threatens ‘heavy force’ against peaceful protesters as military parade marks birthday spectacle

As Trump prepares to mark his 79th birthday with a massive military display in Washington, his warnings against “any” protesters draw widespread alarm from rights groups and legal experts.

Timely lessons for keeping people safe in the streets 

As Trump looks to increase repression, a new training guide explains how peacekeepers reduce fear and build solidarity.

How the rich get richer: Evade taxation, grease trillion-dollar tax breaks, jack interest rates,...

In class and status-conscious, materialistic America (was it ever otherwise?), scoring net worth is easier than figuring out messy election results.