Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Tag: president

Giving a fig

Getting by, up close and personal, in the world of Donald Trump.

Only the ugliest American alone pulverizes domestic and overseas stability, the...

As long as politics remains tawdry, brain-numbing entertainment, infected by hateful racist bugs, today’s already darkened age will grow darker before en-light-enment may return.

Trump’s power and control is slipping through his fingers—and he knows...

All of this should serve as evidence that Trump’s grip on power is quickly slipping through his fingers, and he knows it.

Trump is bad at running the country

It seems that what I learned all those years ago in El Salvador is increasingly becoming the essence of Donald Trump’s America.

The triumphant politics of surfaces, blockading real knowledge, feeding victimhood, outlawry...

The Trump mania for gold-veneer, pompous arches or mammoth ballrooms speaks to his surface obsession, with crass showiness allergic to democratic values, nailed with this brilliant take-down “Trump’s Dictator Chic.”

No Kings, the second time around

Is everything now being Trumped (or perhaps that should be put in capital letters: TRUMPED)?

What’s next after the historic No Kings protest?

We just witnessed the largest protest in US history, but this is just the start.

Never in a million years

Ten reasons why Trump should never be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The ultimate caricature

I suspect that, on returning to this eerie world of ours so many decades later, my mother might find it to be the ultimate caricature—a Trump presidency.

How ‘Making America Great Again’ backfired

From Europe to China, Trump’s unilateral policies have often produced the opposite of their intended effects.

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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.