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Bhikkhu Bodhi A Decision Cruel and Callous Much has been written over the last several days about the political and economic repercussions of Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out from the Paris Climate Agreement. It’s been pointed out that... Read more |
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Ann Marie Utratel, Stacco Troncoso Promoting the Commons in the Time of Monsters Can the Commons and peer-to-peer (P2P) practices really offer viable solutions for our present and future social, political and ecological crises? Spain’s municipal successes remind us who the victor... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli The Immigrant as Criminal Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. —Charles de Secondat, De l’Espirit des Louis (1748) As usual, the fake news people are trying to make a big deal out of the fact that it took DJT more than 48... Read more |
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Kristine Mattis Of Course Trump Has No Moral Compass on Climate. Now It's Up to Us At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) marked the first international treaty to address the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions... Read more |
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Jamie Henn The Best Way to Resist Trump Ditching Paris? Divest from Fossil Fuels After Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement, many of us are looking for a way to fight back. One of the simplest and most powerful things we can do right now is to divest from fossil... Read more |
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John Nichols It’s Time to Make the Case for Impeaching Trump D onald Trump’s campaign boast that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters” may still hold true for the dead-enders who cling to the fantasy... Read more |
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Eamon Ryan America Is Acting Like a Rogue State, So We Must All Stand Up for What's Right It was no surprise when Donald Trump walked out into the Rose Garden to announce to the waiting world he was about to drop out of the Paris Climate Agreement. We knew what was coming. We realised... Read more |
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Adam Johnson In a Dozen Interviews, Media Never Bothered Asking President Trump About Climate Change President Donald Trump’s disastrous withdrawal of the US from the Paris Climate Change Accord understandably has the media in a frenzy. “Unconscionable and fatuous,” proclaimed The Economist ( 6/1/17... Read more |
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Les Leopold Wanted: A Massive Education, Organizing Drive and Progressive Vision to Vanquish Trump As Trump stumbles, and maybe crumbles, progressives are confronting a painful truth: Trump is a reflection of a much bigger problem ― the rise of runaway inequality and the failure of the liberal... Read more |
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Heide Castañeda, Jessica Mulligan, Mark Schuller With Attention Elsewhere, Healthcare for Millions Still at Risk Wendy and Rich, a white working-class couple from Crystal River, Florida, signed up for Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”) coverage last year primarily because they wanted to avoid paying the... Read more |
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Maura Cowley 10 Things You Can Do To Resist Trump’s Historic Paris Mistake Donald Trump made a historic mistake by announcing he will be withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement . This unprecedented move is catapulting the U.S. into last place -- we’re now one... Read more |
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Mark Hertsgaard Donald Trump’s Withdrawal From the Paris Accords Is a Crime Against Humanity P resident Donald Trump confirmed his status as climate denier in chief today, guaranteeing his place in history as an enemy of both science and humanity. Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from... Read more |
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David Roberts The 5 Biggest Deceptions in Trump’s Paris Climate Speech Yesterday, President Donald Trump gave a speech announcing that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. It is a remarkable address, in its own way, in that virtually every passage... Read more |
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Dorothy Grace Guerrero Trump, the Paris Agreement and the Breakdown of Multilateralism Withdrawing from the UN Paris Climate Accord is one of more than a hundred electoral campaign promises that Donald Trump made. By delivering on that promise, the US now joined Nicaragua and Syria,... Read more |
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Dana Nuccitelli Trump Just Cemented His Legacy as America’s Worst-Ever President In an inexplicable abdication of any semblance of responsibility or leadership, Donald Trump has announced that he will begin the process to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate treaty... Read more |
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Bill McKibben Trump’s Stupid and Reckless Climate Decision People say, if all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail. We should be so lucky. President Trump has a hammer, but all he’ll use it for is to smash things that others have built... Read more |
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Michael Winship Be Warned, Donald Trump: Ghosts Are Everywhere “The damned place is haunted, sure as shootin.’” President Harry Truman wrote that to his wife Bess in 1946. He was talking about the White House. “You and Margie [their daughter Margaret] had better... Read more |
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Livia Gershon Why It Matters That Poor Kids Don’t Have Time to Play Last year, Allyn taught a second grade class in a high-poverty school in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The school had been in the papers for poor test results, and it was pushing to change by adding... Read more |
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Stephen Kretzmann When Will Exxon Be Worthless? Not If. These are dizzying days. Our best advice is to stay woke, and pay attention. As we prepare for a day that will revolve around Trump’s Rose Garden speech to Make America Guzzle&Gush Again, it is... Read more |
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Michael Sainato Bernie Sanders’ Revolution Is Just Getting Started Several polls combined with his growing support base have confirmed that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the United States. His presidential candidacy sparked a progressive... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Kabul Bomb Blast Kills at Least 90 People. We Need to Know Their Names. A suicide bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan killed at least 90 people and injured over 450. Hidden in a tanker truck, the bomb is likely one of the largest ever set off in Kabul. It left a crater 13... Read more |
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Brian Kahn Donald Trump's Waffling on Paris Agreement Is Just as Impactful as His Final Decision President Donald Trump has treated the decision of whether or not to keep the U.S. in the Paris Agreement as a game show. If it were The Price is Right , we would be in the showcase showdown, about... Read more |
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Naomi Klein Economic Pressure Could Jolt Trump into Action on Climate Change Let’s just give up. That’s one way of responding to the reports that President Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord. After all, without the world’s largest... Read more |
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Craig Aaron Trump TV, Coming to a Market Near You Donald Trump’s favorite local TV chain is about to get a lot bigger thanks to—wait for it—Donald Trump. Trump’s Federal Communications Commission is paving the way for Sinclair Broadcast Group—... Read more |
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Ife Floyd Trump’s TANF Cut Would Hurt the Poorest Families, and States Might Make Them Worse President Trump’s proposed $2.2 billion cut to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program in 2018 would reduce states’ federal TANF funds by 10 to 18 percent (depending on whether a... Read more |
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Kelly Mitchell Exxon Shareholders are Resisting — Here’s Why It Matters ExxonMobil held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) for shareholders in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday. This event draws attention from activists each year, and Greenpeace certainly wasn’t going to miss the... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Strip and Flip: Democracy in a Cage The wound burst open in November. History, suddenly, could no longer be avoided. Reality could no longer be avoided. American democracy is flawed, polluted, gamed by the oligarchs. It always has been... Read more |
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John Atcheson The Long Road to Surviving Trump Begins With ... Rejecting Neoliberalism So, no sooner is Trump back from his disastrous G7 meeting than he starts mugging the press. Nothing new here—simply another distract, discredit and deceive tactic—something every would-be despot... Read more |
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Bernard-Henri Lévy Awakening from the Trump Nightmare PARIS — The American people can escape from the ordeal of Donald Trump’s presidency in one of three ways. But if and when they do is an irreducibly political question, not one that hinges on legal... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel No, the 'Resistance' Isn’t Failing at the Voting Booth. Here’s Where It’s Winning. Elections produce winners and losers. There are no bonus points for participation. Democrats have been frustrated by losses in high-profile congressional races — Rob Quist bested by Greg Gianforte in... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Free Fallin': On the Perils and Promise of Possibly Impeaching Trump I would love to see Donald Trump impeached—for anything. Emoluments. Corruption. Conflicting business interests. Profiting at public expense. Obstructing the Russia investigation. Leaking classified... Read more |
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Christian Christensen Conspiracy Theories and the Right-Wing Ecosystem The conspiracy theory is a well-worn theme within popular culture. From The Manchurian Candidate to JFK to The X-Files, our understanding of these theories are as ones where the stakes are at the... Read more |
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Ralph Nader End the Greedy Silence – Enough Already! It is time Americans rise up against the corruption, inefficiency, and cruelty of our healthcare system and tell its corporate captors and Congress – Enough Already! For decades other countries have... Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Republican Party’s Sickness of the Soul There’s a sickness on the land. You know the facts: Millions of Americans lives in poverty. The number of Americans in the workforce remains low. Wages are stagnating and inequality is growing. “... Read more |
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Greg Grandin How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega’s Panama Super-Charged US Militarism M anuel Noriega is dead at 83 . He seems like a sad footnote to the last disastrous quarter century, but the December 1989 US invasion of Panama really was a permission slip for Washington—led by... Read more |
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Rhea Suh A Budget That Scorches the Planet President Trump opened a new front in his assault on our environment and health last week, releasing detailed budget proposals that amount to a scorched-earth campaign—literally and figuratively. The... Read more |
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J. Mario Molina You've Been Duped. The Affordable Care Act Isn't Raising Your Premiums. Republicans Are. As I watch the debate unfold over repeal of the Affordable Care Act, I keep thinking about the Hans Christian Anderson story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In the story, the emperor's weavers convince... Read more |
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Robert Kuttner Jeremy Corbyn’s Surprising Gains Something strange appears to be happening on the way to British Prime Minister Theresa May’s anticipated victory after her clever strategy of calling a snap election. The ploy could backfire on her—... Read more |
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Leo Gerard Trump Budget Makes America Land of No Opportunity A few hundred billion cut here, a few hundred billion slashed there, and the Trump budget proposal adds up to real crushed opportunity. The spending plan slices a pound of flesh from everyone, well,... Read more |
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Danny Sjursen Beating the War Drums... Again “Everywhere you look, if there is trouble in the region,” Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters on a mid-April visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, “you find Iran.” I must admit that when I... Read more |
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Victoria Cooper, David Whyte Government Austerity Demands That We Die Within Our Means As we move towards the general election, we are paralyzed by what is probably the biggest single issue affecting ordinary people in the country: austerity. We are unable to fully understand both the... Read more |
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Betsy Karasik Give the Portland Heroes the Presidential Medal of Freedom As we honored and remembered over the Memorial Day weekend so many who have died for justice and freedom, I found myself inordinately haunted by the Portland, Ore., stabbing of three men who came to... Read more |
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Robert Reich Making America Meaner Last Wednesday, on the eve of his election to the House of Representatives, Montana Republican Greg Gianforte beat up Ben Jacobs, a reporter for the “Guardian" newspaper. What prompted the violence?... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Cut Corporate Taxes? This Is How the Biggest Companies Cheated on Taxes in 2016 Donald Trump wants to cut what some call the "highest corporate tax rate in the world." The tax cut will, according to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin , "pay for itself with economic growth." "... Read more |
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Nancy Matsumoto Want to Get “Back to the Land?” You’re Not Alone Over the past century, generations of young people have turned their backs on city life to embrace small-scale farming and back-to-the-land ideals. The exact circumstances for each generation's... Read more |
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Marian Wright Edelman President Trump's War On Children Our nation’s budget should reflect our nation’s professed values, but President Trump’s 2018 Federal Budget, “A New Foundation for America’s Greatness,” radically does the opposite. This immoral... Read more |
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Greg Kaufmann Trump’s Budget Is What Class Warfare Looks Like Earlier this week, the Trump administration launched a massive salvo against the working and middle class with a budget that was every bit as absurd as its title: “ A New Foundation for American... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Celebrating Barry Commoner, Father of the Modern Environmental Movement Described in 1970 by Time magazine as the “Paul Revere of ecology,” Commoner followed Rachel Carson as America’s most prominent modern environmentalist. But unlike Carson, Commoner viewed the... Read more |
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Daniel C. Maguire Comedians to the Rescue Let’s hear it for the comedians. We never needed them more than now in the age of Trump. Historically, societies have learned with a stunning unanimity that power untamed by humor turns quickly... Read more |
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Dean Baker Republicans Are Only Opposed to Redistribution that Goes Downward Matt O'Brien's Wonkblog piece might have misled readers on Republicans views on the role of government. O'Brien argued that the reason that the Republicans have such a hard time designing a workable... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Artist as Prophet The Israeli writer and dissident Uri Avnery asked an Egyptian general how the Egyptians managed to surprise the Israelis when they launched the October 1973 war. The general answered: “Instead of... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Little Big Man: Into the Whirlwind He’s huge. Outsized. He fills the news hole at any moment of any day. His over-tanned face glows unceasingly in living rooms across America. Never has a president been quite so big. So absolutely... Read more |
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Diane Ravitch DeVos Hires Top Official at For-Profit University to Help "Right-Size" Department of Education Jennifer Berkshire reports that Secretary Betsy DeVos has turned to a top official from the scandal-plagued for-profit higher education industry to “right-size” the Department of Education. As the... Read more |
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Mel Gurtov All Is Not Quiet on the Western Front Donald Trump’s visit to NATO headquarters last week was consistent with two of his foreign policy views: the need to pursue close relations with Russia, and skepticism about NATO’s utility. Despite... Read more |
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Janine Jackson Five Years Later, US Admits Lies About Deadly Honduran Shooting A Justice and State Department review reveals that top Drug Enforcement Administration officials lied repeatedly to Justice and to Congress about deadly shootings in Honduras in May 2012—including an... Read more |
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Tobita Chow New NAFTA Must Put People and Planet First The White House has sent formal notice to Congress that it is initiating the process to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). All evidence suggests that despite Trump’s claims... Read more |
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Bill Honigman Single Payer Healthcare, It's Not Pie-in-the-Sky, It's About Stopping the Pie Shop Piracy! The movement for Healthcare Justice is currently coming to a peak in California with the recent introduction and now advancement to the State Senate floor for a vote due next week on SB 562 The... Read more |
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César Chelala Poetry to the Rescue of America's Soul As President Donald Trump’s (is this true or is it only a passingvnightmare?) wrecking machine continues its steady work of destroying everything that is dear to Americans, two poets, Roque Dalton (... Read more |
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Ali Abunimah Hunger Strike Ends, Prisoners Declare Victory After 40 days without food, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails. The end of the strike came after 20 hours of intense negotiations between the strike... Read more |
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Charles Ornstein Three Strategies to Defend GOP Health Bill: Euphemisms, False Statements, and Deleted Comments This story was co-published with Stat and Kaiser Health News . Earlier this month, a day after the House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act... Read more |
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Lois Marie Gibbs Fight Back for Energy Independence Over Corporate Profits ‘Homeland Security – No more wars over oil!’ That’s what families in communities across Pennsylvania were promised a decade ago. ‘We’ll extract natural gas from the ground, using an unconventional... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Don Trumpoté de la Torre When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de la Mancha In the novel, Don Quixote is remembered for, among other things, tilting at... Read more |
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David Korten Mayor's Unflinching Honesty About Confederate Monuments Gives Me Hope I’ve rarely been so moved by a political speech. If you haven’t heard it, don’t miss it. I refer to the speech on May 19 by Mitch Landrieu, mayor of New Orleans. He was speaking about the reasons for... Read more |
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Christopher Cook Fiscal Fightback: Trump's Budget Could Ignite Progressive Uprising President Trump’s budget proposal —a fiscal assault on everything other than rich people and the military—could prove to be progressives’ ultimate trump card. With its deep cuts to vital programs and... Read more |
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D.D. Guttenplan While Democrats Bicker, Another Republican Bully Wins an Election W e live in the age of rich bullies. In November, Donald Trump showed that a proven record of stiffing your own employees and being caught on tape boasting about grabbing women “by the pussy,” was no... Read more |
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David Macaray No, Stephen Hawking. Let's Save This Planet Instead of Looking for Another Back in the 1970s, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist named William Shockley created quite a stir when he suggested that certain races (i.e., black people) were “genetically inferior” to whites and... Read more |
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Kathleen Romig How Trump Budget Would Hurt Older Americans President Trump’s 2018 budget wouldn’t just hurt people with disabilities, as we’ve explained , but older Americans as well. During the campaign, Trump repeatedly promised not to cut Social Security... Read more |
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Bob Burnett The Four Faces of Trump After four enervating months of Donald Trump's presidency, Americans have seen four different sides of Trump. Trump the Politician We've seen a lot of the same Donald Trump we saw during the 2016... Read more |
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Bryce Oates Preserving Public Lands in Montana and Beyond Long before the nation got to know Greg Gianforte as a body-slamming, reporter-punching candidate to Congress, I knew the guy was a jerk. Why? Because he sued his own state, Montana, to remove public... Read more |
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Steven Harper A Timeline: Pence’s Role in the White House’s Russia-Related Mess The Trump White House has produced what appear to be at least three cover-ups. They relate to: 1) former-national security adviser Mike Flynn’s questionable activities relating to Turkey; 2) Flynn’s... Read more |
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Edward Hunt If They’re Wrong, the Planet Dies With each passing day, the long-term prospects for life on Earth grow increasingly dim. As human activity continues to warm the planet at an alarming rate , the leaders of the United States are... Read more |
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Janine Jackson Elite Media Need to Recognize Assaults on Reporters as a Pattern–and a Threat It is heartening at least that Montana newspapers withdrew their endorsements of Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte—who won a special election in the state on Thursday—after he grabbed... Read more |
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Linda Bilmes Iraq and Afghanistan: The $6 Trillion Bill for America’s Longest War Is Unpaid On Memorial Day, we pay respects to the fallen from past wars – including the more than one million American soldiers killed in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam. Yet the nation’s... Read more |
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John Atcheson Democrats – Lemmings in Search of a Cliff: Why You Shouldn’t Bet the Ranch on 2018 Republicans should be on the run. Trumpcare is toxic, the White House stumbles from disaster to disaster, Trump's budget is a giant slap in the face to the people who voted for him, and Russiagate... Read more |
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Robert Borosage Will the Republican Health Care Debacle Pave the Way for ‘Medicare for All’? This week, the Congressional Budget Office confirmed what was already apparent: the revised House Republican health care bill will still deprive millions of Americans–23 million in the CBO estimate—... Read more |
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Jeremy Corbyn We Must Be Brave Enough to Admit the War on Terror Simply Not Working Our whole nation has been united in shock and grief this week as a night out at a concert ended in horrific terror and the brutal slaughter of innocent people enjoying themselves. When I stood on... Read more |
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Michael Winship Kick Donald Trump’s Circus Out of Town I’m increasingly convinced that the real reason Ringling Bros. has gone out of business is that when it comes to circuses, the Trump White House was just too much competition. For sure, it’s a sordid... Read more |
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Joshua Matz Trump’s Foreign Emoluments: Another Fig Leaf Falls Away Yesterday we learned that the Trump Organization has deemed it “impractical” to identify all payments that its hotels receive from foreign governments. Instead of asking guests a few simple questions... Read more |
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Dean Baker Deficit Scare Tactics Are What Citizens Should Really Be Afraid Of The New York Times ( 5/23/17 ) ran a column by Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Peter Peterson –backed Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The piece begins with the ominous announcement... Read more |
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John Feffer Trump’s Middle East Apology Tour Conservatives used to love to lambaste Barack Obama for traveling abroad and “apologizing” for U.S. conduct. Mitt Romney popularized the argument during one of the presidential debates in 2012. The “... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Let the Media Coverage of Manchester Victims Be a Model for All Young Victims of War Donald Trump, the so-called leader of the free world, made his first foreign visit as president to an absolute monarchy, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a petrostate legendary for its complete absence... Read more |
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Robert Parry ‘Getting Trump’ with the New McCarthyism Yes, I get it. A lot of people want to remove Donald Trump from the presidency for a lot of understandable reasons: his breathtaking incompetence, his relentless narcissism, his destructive policies... Read more |
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Trudy Lieberman Donald Trump to Hungry Seniors: Drop Dead T he budget sent to Congress Tuesday for fiscal year 2018 puts the country’s schizophrenia over feeding hungry citizens back on the agenda—this time in the guise of defunding food programs for... Read more |
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Chuck Marr Trump’s $2 Trillion Choice: Cut Health Coverage and Care for Millions; Cut Taxes for Wealthy We’ve explained that President Trump’s 2018 budget is the most radical, Robin-Hood-in-reverse budget that any modern President has ever proposed, and here’s a perfect illustration: it cuts health... Read more |
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Neal Gabler Roger Ailes: The Man Who Destroyed Objectivity Fox News creator and former chief Roger Ailes, who died at 77 last week from complications after a fall in his Florida home, may have been the most significant political figure of the last 35 years... Read more |
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Ralph Nader A New Way to Challenge the Failed "War on Drugs" More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called “war on drugs” needs serious rethinking. First, we... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Cancer with Political Clout A suicide bomber inflicts hell at a concert hall in Manchester, England that’s full of children, as though that was the point — to murder children. The horror of war . . . well, terrorism . . . doesn... Read more |
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Rebecca Gordon Down the Memory Hole: Living in Trump’s United States of Amnesia The Trump administration seems intent on tossing recent history down the memory hole . Admittedly, Americans have never been known for their strong grasp of facts about their past. Still, as we... Read more |
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Ryan Cooper Democrats: Stop. Listening. To. Rahm. Emanuel. Democrats are smelling blood in the 2018 midterms. President Trump is horrendously unpopular, has all but admitted to obstruction of justice, and already has a special prosecutor investigating his... Read more |
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John Nichols 'This Is a Thunderbolt of Resistance’ C hristine Pellegrino did not just declare victory after a remarkable special-election win that saw her flip a historically Republican New York state Assembly seat to the Democratic column on Tuesday... Read more |
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Mehdi Hasan Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are "Useful Idiots" for ISIS If you want to defeat ISIS, listen to former ISIS hostage Nicolas Henin. The group is “heartened by every sign of overreaction, of division, of fear, of racism, of xenophobia … [and] drawn to any... Read more |
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Binta Baxter Trump's Budget Is a Blueprint for a Banana Republic-Style Military Dictatorship The Trump Administration has officially unveiled its proposed budget to "Make America Great Again," and by all accounts it’s a total flop. Most news outlets are ignoring are the greater implications... Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Trump's Budget Is Immoral The budget introduced this week by the Trump administration constitutes nothing less than a massive transfer of wealth from working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor to the top 1... Read more |
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Paul Song Single Payer in California? Can We Afford it? Can We Afford Not to? Yesterday the California State Senate Appropriations Committee released their fiscal analysis of SB562 sponsored by Senators Lara and Atkins. Opponents immediately screamed that #SB562 would cost $... Read more |
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Jeff Bryant What Betsy DeVos Calls Education Transformation Is Actually Public Theft Betsy DeVos wants to give your tax dollars to private schools and businesses and tell you it’s an education “transformation.” That’s the main theme of an address she gave this week to a conference... Read more |
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Monique Morrissey President Trump’s Budget Kicks People When They’re Down The president’s budget was released Tuesday and a House budget resolution will follow in June. Though the two plans will undoubtedly differ in certain areas—the president’s budget includes... Read more |
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Ronald Aronson We — or Him? When President Donald Trump last week began a tweet with “we” and then deleted it , Trumpwatchers on Twitter seized on the opportunity to turn it back on him. According to The Hill , a onetime aide... Read more |
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Pat LaMarche Opponents of Single Payer Think You're Stupid... But Nothing Is Dumber Than a For-Profit Healthcare System Lack of critical thinking: it’s killing us. And if you get alarmed by the headline of a May 22, Sacramento Bee article, it will continue killing us. One of the few reasonable opinions President Trump... Read more |
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Diane Ravitch Don’t Like Betsy DeVos? Blame the Democrats. Of all the corrupt, unqualified, and extremist characters Donald Trump has tapped to lead his administration, none has generated the tsunami of liberal outrage whipped up by Education Secretary Betsy... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump’s Cruel and Deviant Budget For years, conservatives warned that liberals were “defining deviancy downward.” They said that by tolerating bad social behavior, liberals in effect lowered what was deemed acceptable behavior... Read more |