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All Views Articles for 2017-02-06

Monday, February 6, 2017
	Claudia Center Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Has a Troubling History When Ruling on Disability Rights Cases On Tuesday night, President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, a federal appellate judge, as his nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court. As journalists and activists scour through... Read more
	Juan Cole 'This Land': The Pro-Immigrant Radicalism of Lady Gaga and Guthrie at Half-Time By beginning with Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” and then switching to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is your Land,” Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta, 30) engaged in a subtle but very radical critique... Read more
	Lornet Turnbull How to Help Immigrant and Muslim Neighbors People are turning their frustrations with the Trump administration into finding ways to make a meaningful difference in the lives of vulnerable citizens. Read more
	James Zogby It’s Not Just a Muslim Ban, It’s Much Worse With a stroke of the pen on a misdirected and, I believe, malicious Executive Order (EO), President Donald Trump unleashed a dynamic that will, I fear, have consequences as far-reaching and damaging... Read more
	Norman Solomon The House Can Start Impeachment Against Trump Now Much of the public is eager for the impeachment of President Trump. A poll last week found that 40 percent of Americans already “support” impeaching him, and the same survey — by highly regarded... Read more
	Norman Eisen, Richard Painter The Ethics Case Against Betsy DeVos As former ethics counsels to Presidents Obama and George W. Busy, we’ve reviewed more than our share of ethics filings for cabinet nominees. Seldom have we seen a worse cabinet-level ethics mess than... Read more
	Ben Schreiner Echoes of Iraq Heard in Latest Threats Against Iran Marx offered that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. A mere two weeks into the reign of a new administration in Washington, it appears the farce has already commenced. In an... Read more
	Richard Eskow Trump Stands Up for Bad Bankers The best way to spot a con artist is by paying attention to what you don’t see, as well as to what you see. Donald Trump says he represents working people, but he has already moved aggressively to... Read more
	Chris Hedges Make America Ungovernable Donald Trump’s regime is rapidly reconfiguring the United States into an authoritarian state. All forms of dissent will soon be criminalized. Civil liberties will no longer exist. Corporate... Read more
	Ira Chernus Field of Fright: The Terror Inside Trump's White House What kind of national security policy will the Trump administration pursue globally? On this issue, as on so many others, the incoming president has offered enough contradictory clues, tweets, and... Read more