All Views Articles for 2020-08-13

Thursday, August 13, 2020
"Welcoming the efforts, and the support, of 'Never Trump' Republicans, does not mean celebrating their moral rectitude or embracing their policy positions or even liking them as people," writes Isaac. "It means welcoming their willingness to support a strong Democratic victory in November, and acknowledging, as I argued back in January, that while they have an agenda of their own, they are allies in the defense of democracy." (Photo: AP/Getty/Salon) Jeffrey C. Isaac
Trump and His GOP Enablers Are the Enemy: The Case for Unity Now
Might some of the Republican 'Never Trumpers' move to the Democratic Party and seek to influence it? Yes. Is this nefarious? No. It is politics. Politics at a time of great instability and danger.
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In this photo illustration, President Donald J. Trump shakes hands with Former vice president Joe Biden as Former president Barack Obama looks on at the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2017. (Photo:Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post via Getty Images) Andrew Bacevich
Joe Biden Wins... Then What?
If he seriously intends to be more than a relic of pre-Trump liberal centrism, how exactly should President Biden go about making his mark?
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"The national reckoning on racial injustice and police violence is long overdue," writes the author. (Photo: Shutterstock) Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith
Trump Doesn't Want Law or Order. He Wants Chaos and Division
Trump's federal troops sow disorder wherever they're deployed. That's the point.
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"Trump is down in the polls, and desperate times call for desperate measures," writes Feffer. "It wouldn’t be the first time that Donald Trump rolled the dice in one last bid for the jackpot." (Photo: Shutterstock) John Feffer
What Will Trump Do to the World to Win Re-Election?
Trump shrugged at 150,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths. Who’s to say he’s above starting a fight with China or Iran?
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In March of 1946, eight months after the atomic bomb was dropped, the city of Hiroshima stood in ruins. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Robert C. Koehler
Learning From the Hibakushas
The essential paradox of disarmament is that nuclear power, and thus nuclear bombs, having been invented, will never go away.
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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., is interviewed by CQ Roll Call in his Cannon Building office on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Ro Khanna
Why I Am Voting No on the Democratic Party Platform
History teaches us that the Democratic Party has sometimes faced an issue so great that it alone should be the yardstick for measuring the wisdom of voting for or against the platform. This is one of those times. And Medicare for All is that issue.
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