Tag: Trump administration
Brainwashed nation
We are a brainwashed nation and the political energy of “resisters” is expended in outrage or, at best, fending off the latest assault on immigrants, the poor, civil liberties.
Funding infrastructure: Why China is running circles around America
“If we don’t get our act together very soon, we should all be brushing up on our Mandarin.”
Top 10 signs the US is the most corrupt nation in...
Are Americans not seen as corrupt because we only deal in the big denominations? Think again.
Dr. Strangelove in the Pentagon
What a path of folly we remain headed down – especially with a president proud beyond belief of the size of his “nuclear button.”
In Cuba, Trump’s hostility serves Kremlin
The Russians are emphatically back where the withering of American influence will encourage whatever mischief they mean to create not only in Cuba itself, but in the U.S. and throughout Latin America.
Court orders Trump administration to enforce Obama-era methane rule
Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court for Northern California ruled that the Bureau of Land Management's decision was "untethered to evidence."
‘You should be frightened,’ CPAC drifts even more right
Even with all the power there is to be had in government, the House, the Senate and even the presidency, they're still acting like they're losing.
Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates pleads guilty to conspiracy and...
Gates has become the third member of Trump’s campaign to plead guilty in the Mueller probe.
Inside the Trump admin’s fight to keep the Keystone XL approval...
“The Trump administration’s approval of the Keystone XL pipeline has been nothing but smoke and mirrors.”
The ideology that unites Trump and the authoritarians he admires
It's about propping up "besieged majorities" in multiethnic countries.
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The single, greatest MAGA Trump threat: Constitutional nullification
The horror of MAGA Trumpism is both the speed and ease by which corruption reigns PLUS the dearth of popular resistance.
The physical activity paradox: not all forms of exercise lower your dementia risk –...
Pooling 74 studies of more than 4.2 million people in 30 countries, researchers found leisure exercise cut dementia risk while active commuting was linked to a 10 percent higher risk.
Pentagon fires three at Stars and Stripes, seven months after taking the paper’s rules...
The regulation governing the newspaper was struck from the books in January and its terms moved into a Defense Department directive. Three senators have asked Hegseth for answers by August 28.
“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice
The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.
Three-quarters of Americans would oppose a data center near their home, new polling finds
Opposition has swung 33 points in a year as utility bills climb, and more than 530 counties and towns have restricted or banned the facilities.