Tag: Trump administration
How to defeat the Trump Administration’s racist, Republican-rescuing Census corruption
So be prepared. The Trump administration may get its way and put a citizenship question on the 2020 US Census.
Making sure the Census counts Indian Country
On top of the citizenship question, Indian Country faces the hurdles of being one of the hard-to-count populations and not trusting the government at all.
“We won’t stop fighting”: Groups file new lawsuit to fight Keystone...
“The Trump administration has proven to be just as reckless with our Constitutional separation of powers as this dangerous Keystone XL pipeline is to the safety of our water and climate.”
If war breaks out with Iran, it won’t be an accident
A range of U.S. policies have been deliberately designed to provoke an Iranian response.
Keep America great (don’t count on it!)
Two years later, Trump has failed to reverse America’s decline.
Nationwide ‘close the camps’ demonstrations announced to protest horrific conditions at...
"We need to fight for immigrant families and stop Donald Trump's racist policies, and we can only do it together."
Dems cave on the border
Why were Dems in the Senate and Dem centrists in the House so willing to accommodate Trump on an issue that is exploding into public consciousness?
Trump EPA claims new power plant rule would improve health of...
Media are missing the environmental justice story behind Trump's Affordable Clean Energy rule.
Bernie warns the ‘drums of war are beating in Washington again’
"The US is strong enough to deal with these issues diplomatically, working with allies around the world, and that is what we should be doing."
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.