All Views Articles for 2016–08-23-dear
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Nomi Prins The March of the Billionaires: On Trump’s Bait and Switch How to swamp Washington and double-cross your supporters big time Read more |
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Wendell Potter Repeal Obamacare? GOP Should Be Careful What They Wish For Now that they'll control the White House and Congress, Republicans still haven't got a clue what to do about health care. Read more |
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Robert Borosage How to Expose Trump’s Dastardly Bait-and-Switch Trump is not an economic populist, he’s just playing one on TV. Read more |
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Robert Parry How War Propaganda Keeps on Killing The “fake news” hysteria has become the cover for the U.S. government and mainstream media to crack down on fact-based journalism that challenges Official Washington’s “group thinks” Read more |
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Elizabeth Goitein Trump Will Have Wider Spying Powers Than Anything J. Edgar Hoover Ever Imagined President-elect Donald Trump is about to inherit the most powerful surveillance apparatus in history. Combining unprecedented technological capabilities with a lax legal regime, his spying powers... Read more |
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Martha Burk What Trumponomics Means for Women The new president's plan to "fix the economy" will put women workers in a fix indeed. Read more |
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Robert Reich The Art of the Autocrat Last week, Trump made a deal with Carrier (and its parent, United Technologies) to keep 800 jobs in Indiana rather than sending them to Mexico. Indiana agreed to give Carrier $7 million in tax breaks... Read more |
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Josh Hoxie Who Voted for Wall Street? Trump railed against Wall Street bankers on the campaign trail. Now they're joining his administration. Read more |
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Richard Eskow Will Trump Bring the Robot Apocalypse? The future was supposed to bring prosperity and leisure to working people, not joblessness and misery. But that was before the money guys took over. This week Amazon announced that it’s planning to... Read more |
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Ellen Brown “We’ll Look at Everything”: More Reasons Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Is Terrible To stimulate the economy, create new jobs and generate new GDP requires an injection of new money. Borrowing from the bond markets or off-balance-sheet in public/private partnerships won’t do it. If... Read more |
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William Josephson The Tasks That Still Tower Above Us In his first State of the Union Address, President Kennedy said that when the problems "are towering and unprecedented — the response must be towering and unprecedented as well." His words ring true today. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Augustus Trumpus All hail Augustus Trumpus! All hail the American Putin, whom none can criticize! All hail the Great All Knowing One, who reveals "realities" that are not there and finds "facts" that mere mortals... Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Michael Winship Hillary Clinton’s Inaugural Address Here's what we'd like to hear her say before Donald Trump takes office — a call for a shadow government that will watchdog everything he and Congress do. Read more |
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Nick Surgey Revealed: The Trump Administration's Energy Plan The future Donald Trump administration's energy agenda is revealed in a memo prepared by Trump's energy transition head Thomas Pyle, titled "What to Expect from the Trump Administration." The... Read more |
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Ashley Balcerzak Carson’s Cash: Highly Conservative Interests Have Fueled His Campaign and Kept Food on the Table No (public) experience required. Neurosurgeon Ben Carson has been tapped to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, despite never holding public office in his career. (Even Carson admitted he... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Trump’s Team of Faux Populists and Real Crony Capitalists “My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy. I’ve grabbed all the money I could get. I’m so greedy,” President-elect Donald Trump boasted last January. “But now I’d like to be greedy for the... Read more |
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Bill Blum Talk of Impeaching Trump May Be Premature, But Its Time Will Come Donald Trump has yet to be inaugurated, but talk of impeachment has been in the air since the day after the election. It’s been promoted by an array of influential commentators, both progressive and... Read more |
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Steven Singer Democrats Need to Embrace Progressivism or Else Move Out of the Way It’s time to clean house. Read more |
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Eva Lenke Time for the Nobel Committee to Divest from Fossil Fuels The Nobel Prize celebrates the greatest achievements of and for humankind. In the spirit of Alfred Nobel’s will, the Nobel Foundation needs to break with companies that cause climate change, one of the greatest threats humanity has ever faced Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Smear Campaign Against Keith Ellison Is Repugnant but Reveals Much About Washington Ever since he announced his candidacy to lead the Democratic National Committee, Keith Ellison, the first American Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress, has been the target of a defamation campaign... Read more |
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Yifat Susskind Women the World over Have Shown the US How to Deal with Sexism and Racism From Liberia to Colombia and beyond, women have compiled a vast archive of methods to combat threats to their rights. The US need only follow their lead Read more |
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John Feffer Pulling the Lever for Doomsday Or How Donald Trump Changed Everything (2016-2020) Read more |
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Ezra Rosser Heads in the Sand It seems that many Democrats are determined not to change, not to learn any lessons from the 2016 election. Instead of trying to figure out what went wrong, they are clinging to denial and self-... Read more |
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RoseAnn DeMoro Repealing Obamacare? Here’s a Better Idea – Medicare for All Eliminating private insurance and the high premiums, co-pays and deductibles will save families thousands of dollars, free up millions for businesses, increase wages for workers, and save hundreds of billions for taxpayers Read more |
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Bill Scher Ben Carson’s Opposition To Obama’s Desegregation Plan Is Incoherent The announcement that Ben Carson has been tapped to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development has come with reminders that Carson opposes President Barack Obama’s new rules intended to... Read more |