Tag: President Obama

For all its shortcomings, Obama’s seemingly improvised Syria strategy has taken advantage of unexpected opportunities. This could be the latest.

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.

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.”

What can a new president and a new congress do?

Republicans vow to undo President Obama's new designations, but do they have the power to do so?

In the waning days of his administration, I’d recommend Obama take the following last stands.

Had the Obama administration not dismantled the program Trump would have been able to use the framework to screen and track visa-holders easily.

Obama officials have repeatedly expressed a commitment to killing large numbers of ISIS fighters. Will Trump take it even further?

Keeping successful programs for people in poverty is the only way to secure their survival during the Trump era.

“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.”