Peter Certo
Peter Certo is the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) editorial manager.
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Views Wednesday, April 18, 2018 There Was Nothing Humanitarian About Our Strikes on Syria Just after midnight on April 14, the U.S. and its allies bombed three Syrian regime targets. The reason, they said, was to punish Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons in the town of Douma. Now, the Syrian regime’s brutality has been well documented. Maybe the allegations are true. But there’s a... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Get Ready for Bush 2.0 Political reporters have a saying : There’s always a tweet. That is, for nearly every political moment or presidential decree, there’s an uncannily on-point comment buried somewhere in the presidential Twitter feed. Often it features the president expressing a past view that’s diametrically opposed... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 31, 2018 What Trump Wants on Immigration Is Ethnic Cleansing I’ll be honest: I didn’t watch Trump’s State of the Union address when it aired. Instead, I put my baby to bed and watched reality TV with my wife. If that rattled a few brain cells, hopefully I saved a few more by not guzzling the bourbon I’d set aside to steel myself for the speech. The next day’... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 08, 2017 'Get It Done or Don't Call Me Again': GOP Admit Their Tax Plan Is All About Rich Donors Sometimes I have to remind myself that people in “real America” with “real jobs” don’t while away their mortal hours reading about politics. But God help me, if you’ve suffered through any coverage of the Republican tax plan, you’ve probably heard three things. First, it’ll dramatically slash taxes... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 25, 2017 A U.S. Soldier Died in Niger. What on Earth Are We Doing There? In our military-revering culture, it’s a strange thing for a president to start a war of words with the grieving families of slain soldiers. Strange, yes. But from Donald Trump’s campaign season feud with the parents of Humayun Khan, who died protecting fellow soldiers in Iraq, to his recent feud... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 16, 2017 White Supremacy Carries More Than a Tiki Torch Our president has no trouble naming his enemies — CNN, Rosie O’Donnell, Nordstrom, immigrants, Muslims, the all-women version of Ghostbusters , etc. etc. But when it comes to violent white supremacists, his passive streak is impossible to miss. When neo-Nazis and Klansmen incited a riot in... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Trump’s Worst Collusion Isn’t With Russia — It’s With Corporations I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. The latest news about Donald Trump, Jr., however, is tantalizingly close. The short version of the story, revealed by emails the New York Times obtained, is that the president... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 05, 2017 A Bipartisan Vote to Put the Brakes on War One of the few things I recall fondly about the Trump campaign — a short list, I’ll admit — was the candidate’s apparent glee in ridiculing the war-mongering of his rivals and predecessors. In early 2016, Trump (correctly) summed up George W. Bush’s legacy this way: “We’ve been in the Middle East... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 17, 2017 The Hidden Bombshell in the Comey-Trump Story How can you tell an authoritarian when you see one? We know the 20th century hallmarks — brown shirts, street rallies, and the like. But there’s an autocratic attitude, some historians suggest, that can easily be traced across the centuries. To put it simply, New York University professor Ruth Ben-... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 05, 2017 The Worst Thing About Sessions? Everything We Already Knew. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is in hot water following revelations that he met twice with Russia’s U.S. ambassador when he was a surrogate for the Trump campaign — and then lied about it to Congress. Many of his critics are now calling for his resignation. The contents of Sessions’ talks with the... Read more |