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Elizabeth Warren Neil Gorsuch Does Not Belong on the Supreme Court When Justice Antonin Scalia died last year, giant corporations and their right-wing buddies spent millions of dollars to keep the Supreme Court seat open so that Donald Trump could fill the vacancy... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit New Evidence that Poor Americans Pay the Highest Taxes and Get Little of the Safety Net Before taxes on the rich are cut and social programs decimated, uninformed conservatives should consider who really benefits from U.S. tax laws and assistance programs. The Wealthiest Americans Pay... Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein Right Now, Trump Can Start a Nuclear War Right now, Donald Trump could start a nuclear war on a whim, and no one could stop him. Under any circumstances, the prospect of nuclear war is terrifying, the deadly consequences irreversible. Yet... Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman Trump’s Budget Assault on the Environment Packs a Wallop Donald Trump’s first budget makes his antipathy to the environment clear—and his love for fossil fuels and nuclear power even clearer. In addition to slashing funding to the Environmental Protection... Read more |
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Juan Cole Trump Picks Fights with US Allies: Germany, NATO, EU, Britain etc. After Trump falsely accused President Obama of having him wiretapped at Trump Tower during the campaign, Sean Spicer upped the ante by charging that Obama could have used the British GCHQ electronic... Read more |
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Mark Trahant Trump Budget Brings Harsh Cuts to Indian Country Remember the sequester? Ah, the good old days . The new Trump Administration budget is short on details, but clear on direction. And we do know two things. First: If enacted, this budget would shrink... Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn Evaluate New Travel Ban in Light of International Law After a federal district court judge and a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Donald Trump's Executive Order (EO) instituting a travel ban was likely illegal... Read more |
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Adil E. Shamoo Trump Lies; Ethics Dies In the White House, anti-science, alt-facts and frequent lying are commonplace, and it is taking a toll on our youngest generation. President Trump’s reaction to the recent job report from the... Read more |
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Belén Fernández Fear and Loathing on the Border As Donald Trump 's sordid vision of a "big, beautiful wall" on the United States-Mexico border begins to take shape, The Guardian has revealed that - of the more than 600 companies currently vying to... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Facing Famine, 20 Million People Need Food, Not Bombs The world is facing the most serious humanitarian catastrophe since the end of World War II. Twenty million people are at risk of starving to death in Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria and South Sudan... Read more |
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Malkia Cyril , Joseph Torres The Resistance Must Be Digitized Over the past two months, millions of people have taken to the streets to challenge our nation’s authoritarian new president. From the women’s marches that took place across the country and around... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Rising Above Racism Is Imperative for Human Societies The virulently racist lawmaker Steve King, R-Iowa, is at it again, stoking the flames of white supremacy with his controversial tweet , “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies... Read more |
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Charles Idelson Jonathan Swift's America In 1729 writer/satirist Jonathan Swift penned an essay directed toward the English upper class suggesting a solution for how to prevent the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to... Read more |
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Lydia Pace, Eve Rittenberg Why Birth Control Is Essential for Americans’ Health It is 2020. The American Health Care Act has become law, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has eliminated contraception from its list of essential preventive services that must be... Read more |
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Chuck Smith-Dewey House GOP Misleads with #AlternativeFacts Meme on Health Plans Math is hard. That’s why the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) exists. Its 230-member staff is tasked with rating proposed legislation to determine its economic impact on America and Americans. The... Read more |
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Carol Burris Trump’s Budget Slashes Funding for Disadvantaged Students While Giving 1.4 Billion for Privatization Donald Trump’s education budget is a declaration of war on public education and our nation’s neediest children. It was surely designed by Betsy DeVos. Trump’s budget would axe after-school programs... Read more |
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Todd Gitlin The Management of Unleashed Insanity Richard Nixon lied about wars and cover-ups , but otherwise his evasions and spins were in the mainstream of American political discourse. He was not in the regular practice of calling black white... Read more |
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Ellen Brown If "Ryancare" Is Dead on Arrival, Can We Please Now Try Single Payer? "The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. . . . We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing." — Donald Trump... Read more |
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Tim Karr The President's Attack on Public Broadcasting Puts Him at Odds with the American People On Thursday, the president proposed eliminating all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a main revenue source for hundreds of local NPR and PBS stations across the country... Read more |
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Richard Eskow ‘America First’ Budget Is Unworthy of Our Nation With typical bombast, Donald Trump dubs his 2018 draft budget America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again . No, it won’t make America great again. It reflects a hardness of the... Read more |
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Dean Baker The Public is Clueless About the Federal Budget and It's the New York Times' Fault Paul Krugman criticized the Trump administration for its budget, which would cut or eliminate many programs that benefit low and moderate income people. In his piece, Krugman points out that the... Read more |
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Robert Reich An Orgy of Unnecessary Cruelty The theme that unites all of Trump’s initiatives so far is their unnecessary cruelty. 1. His new budget comes down especially hard on the poor – imposing unprecedented cuts in low-income housing, job... Read more |
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Bill Bigelow The Real Irish-American Story Not Taught in Schools “Wear green on St. Patrick’s Day or get pinched.” That pretty much sums up the Irish-American “curriculum” that I learned when I was in school. Yes, I recall a nod to the so-called Potato Famine, but... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt President Blowback: How the Invasion of Iraq Came Home If you want to know where President Donald Trump came from, if you want to trace the long winding road (or escalator ) that brought him to the Oval Office, don’t look to reality TV or Twitter or even... Read more |
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Miriam Berg Everything You Need to Know About Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch if You Care About Reproductive Rights Neil Gorsuch has an alarming history of interfering with reproductive rights and women’s health. He puts access to abortion, birth control, and care at Planned Parenthood at stake, and his nomination... Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder Small-Scale Farming Could Restore America’s Rural Towns Boarded-up business districts. Abandoned warehouses. Barns and homes covered by tarps slowly collapsing into the earth. It was startling how often this scene repeated as I drove through the rural... Read more |
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Ken Kimmell President Trump Has a Wrecking Ball (and it’s Aimed at the Climate) The wrecking ball that is the Trump presidency is taking aim at the foundation of our country’s response to climate change. Today, the Trump Administration is announcing a re-opening of the fuel... Read more |
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Jeff Bryant What Betsy DeVos Means When She Says ‘Public Schools’ Betsy DeVos once called public schools a “dead end,” but now that she’s U.S. Secretary of Education, she’s suddenly all for them. At least that’s what she claims now. During her nomination process,... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Deep State Hasn't Gone Away “In a statement to WikiLeaks , the source details policy questions that they say urgently need to be debated in public . . .” Let me interrupt this quote from the world’s declassifier in chief,... Read more |
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Hina Shamsi Trump is Considering Expanding Killing Powers Abroad. The Consequences for Civilians Will be Disastrous. When the Obama administration put in place guidelines meant to restrain lethal drone and other killings abroad, we were concerned that they set too low a bar, and that even that low bar could easily... Read more |
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Andy Spears Nashville Says “No!” to Trump’s Health Care Con President Trump came to Nashville to peddle the Republicans’ disastrous plan to cut health care for millions of Americans. Tennesseans responded to this con with a resounding, “No!” More than 2,500... Read more |
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E.J. Dionne The Make Inequality Worse Act of 2017 “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” Novelist Anatole France’s mischievous observation came to... Read more |
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Richard Kogan Trump’s “Skinny” Budget Omits Most of the Budget President Trump released his so-called “skinny” budget today, and it contains substantially less detail than “skinny” budgets of the last five administrations going back to Ronald Reagan. The Trump... Read more |
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Rachel Boccio Leaping Beyond the Prison Walls In the first week of February, thirteen students—all incarcerated adolescents serving time in an adult correctional facility—gather to think through a provocative question posed to them by Naomi... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Why is Donald Trump Lunching With a Saudi War Criminal While Yemenis are Starving? While President Trump sat down for a sumptuous meal at the White House on Tuesday, March 14 with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, millions of Yemenis are going hungry thanks to Trump’s... Read more |
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Tom Newmark, Steven Farrell Beyond Wetiko Agriculture: Saving Ourselves from the Soil Up How much longer do you hope to live? How long do you hope your children or grandchildren will live? Do you think you or your loved ones will live 60 more years? If so, you’ll be around to witness the... Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Going After the Opioid Profiteers Travis Bornstein never told his friends about his son Tyler’s drug problem. He was too embarrassed. Then, on September 28, 2014, Tyler’s body was found in a vacant lot in Akron, Ohio. The 23-year-old... Read more |
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Robert Borosage Republicans Keep Showing Us Who They Are A mid the mayhem of Trump’s first days in office, the Congressional Budget Office’s crushing report on the impact of the Republican health-care plan offers a moment of clarity. The Republican plan... Read more |
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Tim Koechlin Donald Trump... Leaker-in-Chief? Donald Trump and his associates have spent much of the past year deflecting questions about Trump’s stubborn refusal to release his taxes. What is Trump hiding? Embarrassing business relationships in... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump's Bonkers Budget Donald Trump ran for president as a man of the people, who was going to fight for those who were left behind – but everything we’re hearing about his forthcoming federal budget says exactly the... Read more |
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Dave Johnson Should We Pay the Rich to Build Infrastructure, Then Pay Them to Use It? It’s starting to look like President Trump’s promised $1-trillion plan to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure will be as bad for us as his health care plan turned out to be. Infrastructure Report... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel How Democrats Can Win Back the Working Class Of all the promises Donald Trump made as a candidate , perhaps none was more important than his pledge to the working-class voters who flocked to his campaign. “Under a Trump presidency,” he said, “... Read more |
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Mark Dudzic Six Ways Trumpcare Makes Healthcare Worse (and One Way to Make It Better) The Affordable Care Act never really solved the healthcare crisis. It treated healthcare as a commodity allocated through market forces rather than as a public good and failed to address the... Read more |
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Frida Berrigan Preparing for the Long Haul Under the Trump Administration By now, my inchoate hopes that our nation will just wake up from the bad dream of Trump — or even more remotely that he’ll be impeached by a radicalized Congress — have turned to dust and floated... Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Winning World War II in the Twenty-First Century If you are an American male of a certain age -- Donald Trump’s age, to be exact -- you are likely to have vivid memories of Victory at Sea , the Emmy award-winning NBC documentary series about the U... Read more |
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Jesselyn Radack Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower? It is the leakiest of times in the Executive Branch. Last week, Wikileaks published a massive and, by all accounts genuine, trove of documents revealing that the CIA has been stockpiling, and lost... Read more |
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Ralph Nader "Making America Great" at Americans' Expense Donald J. Trump was a builder of casinos and high-priced hotels and golf courses. Now he is a builder of a tower of contradictions for the American people that is making “America Great” at their... Read more |
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Michelle Chen Trump’s Childcare Plan Will Only Help the Rich P esident Trump portrays himself as an expert at marketing designer ties and gourmet steaks, but now, as chief executive of federal social policy, his new childcare plan might be a tougher sell. The... Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce This Is Not a Healthcare Bill Good morning, suckers. Obviously, we'll have more to say about the political effects of the "scoring" of the Republican proposal to change the way that Americans obtain the peace of mind that comes... Read more |
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Michael Winship Where Free Speech Ends, Ignorance Begins At the risk of sounding like a geezer complaining about “these kids today,” back in my college days, when it came to points of view we were unhesitatingly exposed to literature, teachers and on-... Read more |
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Dave Johnson Trump’s China Trademarks Violate the Constitution During the campaign Donald Trump pledged that “on day one” as president, he would label China a currency manipulator. Then he didn’t. Then China granted Trump’s businesses lucrative trademarks he has... Read more |
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Monique Morrissey Everyone Wins If the GOP Health Plan Fails, Even Republicans OK, maybe it’s a slight exaggeration, but almost everyone—99 percent of Americans and all members of Congress—will win if the GOP health plan fails. Let’s start with Congress. Democrats win if they... Read more |
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Jacob Swenson-Lengyel Forget Building Our Own Tea Party. The Left Can Win So Much More On February 19, 2009, just 30 days after President Obama was sworn in, Rick Santelli’s rant on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched the Tea Party. The conservative establishment... Read more |
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Zinn Education Project Hundreds of Arkansas Teachers Request Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Maybe you’ve heard: Legislation just proposed in Arkansas would ban books by or about Howard Zinn from all public schools in the state. The bill, submitted by Representative Kim Hendren (R), can be... Read more |
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Andy Rowell Will Merkel Stand up to Trump on Climate? The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has her first face to face meeting with President Trump tomorrow when she visits Washington. It has been described as a “make or break” meeting between two of... Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs The Ethics and Practicalities of Foreign Aid As a lifelong advocate for development aid for the world’s poor, I am angered by the reported plans of the Trump administration to slash US foreign aid. I know how many children will die or grow up... Read more |
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Shree Chauhan Such a Great Country, Such Nasty Bigotry The night of the election, my iPhone screen shattered. The joke I like to make is that there was glass shattering on November 8th but not the kind we wanted. There’s something symbolic about the... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Dance of Death The ruling corporate elites no longer seek to build. They seek to destroy. They are agents of death. They crave the unimpeded power to cannibalize the country and pollute and degrade the ecosystem to... Read more |
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John Feffer Doubling Down on Dystopia: Preventing the Triumph of Trump’s Will Dystopias have recently achieved full-spectrum dominance. Kids are drawn to such stories -- The Giver, Hunger Games -- like Goths to piercings. TV shows about zombie apocalypses, pandemics, and... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump’s War on the Truth Tellers Trump and his White House don’t argue on the merits. They attack the credibility of the institutions that come up with facts and arguments they don’t like. They even do it preemptively. Last week,... Read more |
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Josh Hoxie The White House Budget Proposal Doesn’t Add Up The political theater that passes for serious policy debate is about to run into an unfortunate reality as Donald Trump’s budget plan comes face to face with its arch-nemesis: arithmetic. It’s... Read more |
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Eric Margolis More Mideast Madness as Trump Prepares to March We are now moving rapidly into stage II of Levantine Madness as the US boosts its intervention in the war-torn Mideast. Five thousand US troops are back in Iraq to bolster the shattered nation’s... Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Southern Communities Brace for the Impact of Big Oil's Expansion Plans President Donald Trump kicked off this week with a Monday morning tweet hailing — and seeming to wrongly take credit for — Exxon Mobil's plan for a $20 billion expansion of its refineries, chemical... Read more |
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Mary Anne Hitt, Bruce Nilles Pathway to Paris The Trump Administration has made no secret of their intent to roll back the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of the climate commitment the US made at the 2015 Paris climate summit. The Clean Power... Read more |
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Ronald Newman The “Freedom Cities” Campaign: Resistance Through Progress at the Local Level On Saturday night, people at more than 2,200 events around the nation tuned in for the inaugural event of People Power , a new platform harnessing nationwide grassroots resistance to the Trump... Read more |
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Steve Vladeck Whitewashing Guantánamo President Trump has made no secret of his desire to continue–if not affirmatively re-invigorate–the detention of non-citizen terrorism suspects at Guantánamo. That’s a problematic policy goal, to be... Read more |
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César Chelala From Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump Increasingly, members of the psychiatric profession are expressing their concern about President Donald Trump mental health status. In a recent letter to the New York Times, two prestigious... Read more |
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Kate Brannen Iraq Is Off the Travel Ban List, But Iraqis Most in Need Not Helped by Trump’s New Order In its revised executive order, the Trump administration dropped Iraq from the list of Muslim-majority countries for whom travel to the United States is suspended for 90 days. The move came after... Read more |
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Janine Jackson In Women’s Strike, Media Miss a Moment to Look in Mirror March 8 was International Women’s Day, this year marked by a Women’s Strike—a coordinated day of action, not limited to work stoppage, that organizers said was intended to highlight how women’s work... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trump, Tapps [sic], and Twitters O envy! Envy! Thou gnawing worm of virtue, and spring of infinite mischiefs! There is no other vice, my Sancho, but pleads some pleasure in its excuse...but envy is always attended by disgust, rancor... Read more |
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Oscar Reyes, Bertie Russell How Progressive Cities Can Reshape the World — And Democracy “We’re living in extraordinary times that demand brave and creative solutions. If we’re able to imagine a different city, we’ll have the power to transform it.” – Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona. On 24... Read more |
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John Atcheson If the Answer is 'Tax Cuts for the Rich; More Pain for the Rest of us,' What Was the Question? Well, where Republicans and Trump are concerned, it could be any question you ask. Take health care. Replacing Obamacare with the Republican’s version will cut taxes on the 400 richest households in... Read more |
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Donna Smith No Politico Wants to Know: We Are Patients It is hell out here for patients right now in America. There may be a swampy, dirty-flash flood going on in D.C. right now, but there are precious few elected officials who see patients as patients... Read more |
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Alyssa Aquino Undocumented Filipinos Are Living a Special Nightmare in Trump’s America As paranoia spreads over the Trump administration’s promised immigration crackdown, there’s a video circulating around California’s immigrant communities. In it, two people — Lolita Lledo, an... Read more |
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Bob Burnett Indivisible: A Social Action Startup for Democracy Some of the most exciting days of my life occurred in the late 80's when I was involved in a technology startup, Cisco Systems. 29 years later I'm involved in another exciting startup, Indivisible ... Read more |
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Mat dos Santos Why is DHS Labeling Protesters “Domestic Terrorists”? The United States government considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist until 2008. Mandela was a designated terrorist 18 years after he was released from prison, 15 years after he won the Nobel peace... Read more |
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Katie Lee Why Appalachia (and the Whole Nation) Needs a Single Payer Healthcare System During a rural medical outreach visit in East Tennessee, I met a woman who had become concerned after she found a lump in her breast. She was 44 years old, only a year younger than her mother was... Read more |
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Liz Perera Scott Pruitt Has Misled Congress on Climate Multiple Times On Thursday morning, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told CNBC that he does not believe carbon dioxide is a “primary contributor” to global warming. “I think that measuring with... Read more |
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Danny Sjursen The Surge Delusion: An Iraq War Anniversary to Forget The other day, I found myself flipping through old photos from my time in Iraq . One in particular from October 2006 stood out. I see my 23-year-old self, along with my platoon. We’re still at Camp... Read more |
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Linda Darling-Hammond Education for Sale? O n February 7, Betsy Devos was confirmed as the nation’s new education secretary after a contentious 50-50 vote in the Senate, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie. Coming to the job with... Read more |
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Conn Hallinan Bush-Era Foreign Policy Delusions Are Alive and Well in 2017 In trying to unravel the debates over U.S. foreign policy currently being fought out in the editorial pages of the New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and the magazine Foreign Policy, one... Read more |
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Jeremy Brecher As Their Trials Begins, Climate Protecting "Valve Turners" Say "Shut It Down" Is "Necessity" Is there anything people can do about climate change in the Trump era? The new American president has asserted that global warming is a fraud perpetrated by the Chinese to steal American jobs;... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan ‘A Day Without a Woman’: The Women’s Global Strike and the Growing Movement Against Donald Trump The Statue of Liberty went dark Tuesday, the day after President Donald Trump signed his revised executive order, dubbed the “Muslim ban 2.0,” excluding all refugees and people from six majority-... Read more |
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Jeff Biggers Call It What It Is: Climate Cover-Up, Not Climate Denial Today’s remarks by EPA administrator Scott Pruitt that human activity is not “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see” should effectively bring an end to the term formerly known as “... Read more |
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Richard Eskow The American Health Care Act Is a Wealth Grab, Not a Health Plan The Republicans’ plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is a disaster for the health of the American people. But that may be nothing more than a byproduct of the bill’s main impact: it will increase... Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Why the Russia Story Is a Minefield for Democrats and the Media Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared on Meet the Press this past weekend to discuss the Trump-Russia scandal. Chuck Todd asked: Were there improper contacts between the... Read more |
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Simon Johnson Restore American Democracy — Mobilize Your National Network Millions of Americans are in despair. They know our democracy is in great peril — from plutocrats, organized groups using dark money to control Congress and ideologues determined to rip up Social... Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy The Worst $1 Million Trump Ever Saved Donald Rumsfeld once famously said, “There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But... Read more |
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Marta Conner The House Republican Plan for Medicaid Would Put My Daughter’s Life At Risk My daughter, Caroline, is seven years old. She is funny and smart and obsessed with Disney princess movies and loves books about dinosaurs. Caroline also has Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder... Read more |
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Randall Amster Surrealistic Homeland Blues You don’t need a weatherman to tell you that we’re in the midst of volatile conditions as we arrive at the fiftieth day of the Trump presidency—which feels more like fifty years in regular human time... Read more |
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Jennifer Daskal Who Is Judge Gorsuch? Over two weeks ago, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent Judge Gorsuch a letter asking about his role in 10 high-profile cases that were litigated by... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Moment of the Fool Obama . . . Trump. Could there be a bigger contrast — in attitude, style, comportment, philosophy? What irony that the two names are now linked in history: Donald Trump forever the successor to... Read more |
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Elise Gould, Jessica Schieder It’s Time We Acknowledge Women’s Contributions to the Economy Women hold 49.5 percent of payroll jobs. The health of the female workforce is hugely important to the health of the overall labor force. And yet—in crucial ways—lawmakers in the United States have... Read more |
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Miriam Pemberton Getting That Secure Feeling Yet? Millions of Americans are feeling uneasy, disgruntled, and insecure. That message sounded loud and clear throughout our turbulent election year. The Trump administration’s latest budget proposal isn’... Read more |
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Jacob Swenson-Lengyel Shareholders Showdown: Will Disney Break From The Beast? Exclusive access to President Trump might sound good to a CEO, but it comes at a cost to your business. Just ask Uber chief Travis Kalanick. In early February, Kalanick was compelled to step down... Read more |
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Marcy Wheeler Wikileaks Dumps CIA’s Hacking Tools Today, Wikileaks released a big chunk of documents pertaining to CIA’s hacking tools. People will — and already have — treated this as yet another Russian effort to use Wikileaks as a cutout to... Read more |
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Alnoor Ladha Memory, Fire and Hope: Five Lessons from Standing Rock "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." —Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Last week, on February 22, 2017, water protectors at the Oceti... Read more |
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Lynn Sherr The 1970 Women’s Strike: A Bit of History Time was, you didn’t need a strike to create “A Day Without a Woman.” That’s just how things were. If you walked into any voting booth on Election Day, or watched any Supreme Court hearing, or tuned... Read more |
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Helen Gym Betsy DeVos’s Education Agenda Can Be Overturned. This City Shows How. L ast month, with the help of a tie-breaker vote, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos squeaked through one of the most humiliating confirmations ever for a cabinet official. In the weeks leading up to... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Let’s Give the CIA the Credit It Deserves For months now, our country has endured the tacit denigration of American ingenuity. Countless statements—from elected officials, activist groups, journalists and many others—have ignored our nation’... Read more |