Tag: Trump administration
Six potential lessons from our most debased presidency
To restore America, we need both vilify Trump for what he is – and defy his gang – but also reluctantly face how epic excesses clarity our moral, intellectual and political choices.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 16, 2018
Intellectually bankrupt GOP, California cities pledge to oppose offshore drilling, White House revokes security clearance of ex-CIA director, and more.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 10, 2018
Trump rule would give $2.5 billion tax cut to big bank fat cats, Judge blocks Trump administration from deporting asylum seekers, Argentina Senate votes against legalizing abortion, and more.
‘Major victory for public health:’ Court orders Trump EPA to ban...
"Children, farmworkers, rural families, and science are all huge winners today... EPA's job is to protect public health, not industry profits."
US Fish and Wildlife Service lifts ban on neonicotinoids linked to...
"Industrial agriculture has no place on public lands dedicated to conservation of biological diversity and the protection of our most vulnerable species, including pollinators like bumble bees and monarch butterflies."
Where Trump sees foreign danger
For Trump, it’s immigrants and imports. He doesn’t care much about interference in our democracy.
Trump’s long-delayed pick for science adviser believes in climate change
"Kelvin will be a good science advisor, but so much of what makes an effective science advisor depends not on the person, but on the president and the White House."
Trump administration attempts to tweak capital gains tax only to benefit...
But tax analysts said the proposed tweak would create more tax shelters and increase national debt.
My summer vacation in the UK: What a blooming relief!
Fabricated defiance of the establishment was enough to justify the absurd hypocrisy of Trump's harangues – all evidence to the contrary.
6 reasons for hope in Trump times
First, Donald Trump has been a giant wake-up call that we can’t take democracy for granted.













