Friday, September 25, 2026

Tag: president

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.

Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’

I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.

Trump knows he’s failing—and he’s hoping a new war will bail...

Trump’s Iran offensive seeks to divert attention from mounting crises at home.

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The Charles R. Huntley Generating Station in Tonawanda, New York. Photo: Andre Carrotflower / CC BY-SA 4.0

EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue

The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
The lobby of the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Photo: Daderot (public domain)

7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike

A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
A patient exam room at a U.S. urgent care clinic. Photo: Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage

Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Demonstrators protest ICE conduct in Minneapolis. Photo: Fibonacci Blue / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run

DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.