Monday, March 23, 2026

Tag: Trump administration

Authorities can now deny visa and green card applications without giving...

Immigration lawyers call the policy change, which kicks in today, another brick in Trump’s “invisible wall” to make legal immigration as difficult as possible.

Trump administration’s new immigration plan will detain families entering US illegally...

The new regulation would likely "lead to the detention of thousands of families apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, by eliminating extra legal protections for children who arrive with their parents."

The dangerous myth of deregulation

Don’t fall for it. Trump’s binge of deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics.

Rats Ahoy

The "ship of state" is sinking, and the "rats" are getting out.

How you can stop Trump’s lie machine

We’re not going to get Trump to stop lying but we can at least limit his ability to amplify those lies.

What will Donald Trump be remembered for?

So tell me that he won’t be remembered for his absolute, if ignorant, dedication to the taking down of civilization.

UK councils invest billions in fracking, including companies tied to Donald...

Without that gift from the GOP and Trump, EOG would have lost approximately $700 million between those two years.

As epic losses mount, Trump’s one ‘win’ spurs the ultimate boomerang

The good news/bad news is that Trump is no better at criminality (or hiding secrets or deflecting retribution) than he is at being a mock, TV-celebrity president.

Scoring Trump’s tax cuts so far: $280k for rich lawmakers, pennies...

Very few businesses have raised wages thanks to corporate tax cuts, but executives and lawmakers are buying new yachts.

How the Trump administration went easy on small-town police abuses

The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana – where officers jail witnesses to crimes – could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother.

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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.

DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure

On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.

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.