Tag: President Obama
The U.S. should back Russia’s Syria ceasefire
For all its shortcomings, Obama’s seemingly improvised Syria strategy has taken advantage of unexpected opportunities. This could be the latest.
The Democratic Party must undergo a dramatic transformation to lead America...
The Democratic Party has allowed itself to become a part of that problem and now it’s time that it and its members break away from that dysfunctionality and return to a strong liberal/progressive agenda.
Obama, deporter in chief, should pardon the undocumented
Noam Chomsky says Obama “should proceed to what is in fact an urgent necessity: to grant a general pardon to 11 million people who are living and working here, productive citizens in all but name.”
Will Obama’s offshore drilling ban be Trumped?
What can a new president and a new congress do?
President Obama created two new national monuments and Republicans are furious
Republicans vow to undo President Obama's new designations, but do they have the power to do so?
My wishes for Obama’s parting shots
In the waning days of his administration, I’d recommend Obama take the following last stands.
Did Obama just stop Trump’s Muslim registry?
Had the Obama administration not dismantled the program Trump would have been able to use the framework to screen and track visa-holders easily.
The final Obama doctrine? Racking up the body count
Obama officials have repeatedly expressed a commitment to killing large numbers of ISIS fighters. Will Trump take it even further?
The Obama legacy: Place-based poverty
Keeping successful programs for people in poverty is the only way to secure their survival during the Trump era.
Obama “actively” pondering end of dormant Muslim surveillance scheme, ahead of...
“The program was fundamentally flawed in its false assumption that people of a particular religion or nationality pose a greater national security risk and should be subject to racial profiling.”
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.