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Medea Benjamin Will Donald Trump Escalate the Devastating War and Hunger in Yemen? This week marks the beginning of year three of the Saudi-led military intervention in the civil war in Yemen, an intervention that has resulted in an epic tragedy of destruction and starvation. Tens... Read more |
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Patrick Lawrence Famine Could Kill 20 Million in Africa and Yemen—Why the Deafening Silence? Tw o striking stories, back to back, come our way as spring arrives. I cannot get either out of my mind—for what they say, for what they imply about everyone unmentioned in them, for what they do not... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Feuding Kleptocrats The Trump kleptocrats are political arsonists. They are carting cans of gasoline into government agencies and Congress to burn down any structure or program that promotes the common good and impedes... Read more |
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LeeAnn Hall Health Care Victory Paves Way for Redoubled Resistance On Thursday, People’s Action was pulling out all the stops to defeat Republicans’ plan to repeal health care on the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – and preparing to take the fight to... Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn Neil Gorsuch and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State When Donald Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus addressed the Conservative Political Action Committee in February, he identified two priorities of the administration: the confirmation of Neil... Read more |
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Jon Else Not Your Grandma’s Civil Rights Strategy On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall, President John F. Kennedy, prodded by Attorney General Robert... Read more |
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Robert Reich No, Paul Ryan, Your Healthcare Defeat Wasn't Because of "Growing Pains" House Speaker Paul Ryan, in his press conference following the demise of his bill to replace Obamacare, blamed Republicans who had failed to grasp that the GOP was now a “governing party.” “We were a... Read more |
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Evan W. Sandlin If Aleppo Was a Crime Against Humanity, Isn’t Mosul? Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and the last major Islamic State stronghold in the country, is nearly under Iraqi government control. The Islamic State, or ISIS, has occupied the city since June... Read more |
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Mark Danner What He Could Do What we are witnessing now is the birth of a new political order, and the more frantic a handful of media elites become, the more powerful that new political order becomes…. 1 —Stephen K. Bannon... Read more |
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Ha-Joon Chang, James K. Galbraith, et al. 50+ Economists Warn Against Neoliberalism's Return in Ecuador Over the past ten years, Ecuador has achieved major economic and social advances. We are concerned that many of these important gains in poverty reduction, wage growth, reduced inequality, and... Read more |
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Alex Kotch Kochs Bankroll Move to Rewrite the Constitution A constitutional convention, something thought impossible not long ago, is looking increasingly likely. Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, if 34 state legislatures “issue a call” for a... Read more |
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Martin Kirk, Jason Hickel Gates Foundation's Rose-Colored World View Not Supported by Evidence The annual public letter from Bill and Melinda Gates has become a much-celebrated event in the global development calendar. But lost in the excitement around this year’s letter is the fact that it... Read more |
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David Korten The Superrich Have Profited From a Broken System—And Their Money Alone Won’t Fix It Congratulations, you won—you are the last and richest person on Earth. In the security of your sunless underground bunker, you will be the last to die in a dying Earth’s paroxysm of fire and flood... Read more |
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George Cassidy Payne Trump’s Proposed Budget Will Pay for America’s Berlin Wall So much for Mexico paying for it. According to a recent CNBC article , “Trump will request more than $4 billion in defense spending to build the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, marking the first... Read more |
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Jeff Biggers Let Us Now Praise A Coal Miner: Chuck Nelson Is An American Hero Among the hundreds of coal miners I have interviewed over the years, retired coal miner Chuck Nelson has always been among the most fearless truth-tellers in the coal country of West Virginia. An... Read more |
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Bob Burnett Trump's Huge Failure After promising to "repeal and replace Obamacare on day one [of his presidency]", Donald Trump suffered an ignominious rejection on day 64. True to form, Trump took no responsibility for the defeat... Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Blocking Gorsuch Matters Now More Than Ever Trump and the Republicans are doing so many things so fast to hurt ordinary Americans, it’s hard for the resistance movement to keep up. But nothing is more consequential than Neil Gorsuch’s... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Prisons, Phones, and Profit When at last this little instrument appeared, consisting, as it does, of parts every one of which is familiar to us, and capable of being put together by an amateur, the disappointment arising from... Read more |
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Bill McKibben Citizens Must Hold Government Accountable on Climate A few things that happened this week: one set of researchers announced that February was the planet’s fourth-warmest month on record, which is especially bad news since the El Niño that produced last... Read more |
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Zoë Carpenter Donald Trump Can’t Make a Deal D onald Trump has made plenty of bad deals in the course of his career. There was his Atlantic City casino empire, which ended in multiple bankruptcy filings. There was Trump University, which led to... Read more |
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Dennis Kucinich Saving Obamacare Is Not Enough—We Need Medicare for All T he health-care debate in America is essentially an argument over what kind of private insurance market people should have access to: President Obama’s, where the insurance companies made out like... Read more |
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Anthony Swift, Danielle Droitsch Trump Restarts Keystone XL Fight, Not the Tar Sands Pipeline The Trump Administration’s approval of the cross-border permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline marks the beginning of what is likely to be a long fight over the dirty energy project. Many... Read more |
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Robert Reich Gorsuch Shouldn't Be Confirmed Until We Know the Person Who Picked Him Is Cleared of Wrongdoing Neil Gorsuch shouldn’t be confirmed until Trump comes clean. Nominating a new justice of the Supreme Court is one of the most important responsibilities of a president. But until we know Trump is a... Read more |
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Anusha Ravi 3 People Explain How Last-Minute Medicaid Changes Make the GOP Health Care Bill Even Crueler After seven years of demanding the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), House Republicans have reached their moment of truth. They have slapped together a bill to replace the law—the American... Read more |
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John Feffer Why Spend $54 Billion More on the Pentagon? To Start a War, Obviously. So, let me see if I’ve got this right. North Korea has been pushing its ally China to rein in the United States. Pyongyang is worried that Washington is about to launch a preemptive attack, so it has... Read more |
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Andy Rowell Climate Denier Trump Takes Us into “Unchartered Territory” with KXL Later today, the Trump administration is expected to announce the approval of the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline has been the subject of a major battle between... Read more |
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Rafael Diaz Grassroots Power Stalls Trumpcare March 23rd, the seventh anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), turned into a better day for the people of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, than it was for House Speaker Paul Ryan, President Donald... Read more |
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Eugene Robinson Mr. President, The Disgrace Is All Yours President Trump called himself “instinctual” this week, but the word he must have been groping for was “untruthful.” He lies incessantly, shamelessly, perhaps even pathologically, and his lying... Read more |
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Michael Winship Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil There was so much smoke being blown in Washington on Wednesday you could probably see it from the International Space Station. And it all seemed to come from a single polluter: Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA... Read more |
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Stephen Zunes The Bipartisan Effort against Campaigns for Corporate Responsibility The Trump Administration’s efforts to legitimize the Israeli occupation and illegal settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories has received surprising bipartisan support. A series of bills... Read more |
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Katherine Paul Congress Must Investigate Collusion Between Monsanto and the EPA. Now. “I have cancer, and I don’t want these serious issues in HED [EPA’s Health Effects Division] to go unaddressed before I go to my grave. I have done my duty.” It’s been four years since Marion Copley... Read more |
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Jeff Bryant The Big Lie Behind Trump’s Education Budget Public school supporters are angry at President Trump’s budget proposal, which plans to cut funding to the Department of Education by 13 percent – taking that department’s outlay down to the level it... Read more |
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Wendell Potter Why Big Insurance Adores the American Health Care Act There’s been a lot of talk about just who was hurt and helped by Obamacare and who will profit or be imperiled by the next phase of health care legislation. Yet health insurance executives have been... Read more |
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LeeAnn Hall We Have The Chance Now To Go Bold On Health Care – And Freedom – For All The House of Representatives is slated to vote Thursday on a health care repeal bill that will gut the Affordable Care Act and end Medicaid as we know it. In legislative and human terms, passage of... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Mosque That Disappeared We committed a quiet little war crime the other day. Forty-plus people are dead, taken out with hellfire missiles while they were praying . Or maybe not. Maybe they were just insurgents. The women... Read more |
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Ira Chernus Why The Resistance Must Do More Than Resist The resistance is a huge movement—yuge! At least that’s how it feels when you are in it. And it’s true that the United States has not seen anything like this since the Vietnam war days. Still, Trump... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Stubborn Facts and the Lies That Kill Democracy It is not just Donald Trump whose rhetoric is chronically bereft of reality. Politicians, reporters, commentators and academics are often similarly untethered to hard facts, albeit not for... Read more |
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Janelle Jones Trump’s Spending Cuts Would Create the Black America He’s Been Talking About On the campaign trail last summer, Donald Trump tried to appeal to African Americans by asking what we had to lose by voting him into office. Exit polls showed that we had a hunch what a Trump... Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu We Must Filibuster Gorsuch’s Federalist Society Agenda You probably have a better chance of becoming a judge in China without being a Communist than you have of making it to the Supreme Court under Republicans without the support of the hard-right... Read more |
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Tom Gallagher The Democratic Party Left After the Ellison DNC Campaign: Unite or Fight? One thing to keep in mind about the recent Thomas Perez–Keith Ellison race for Democratic National Committee chair is that it was pretty much an only-in-America sort of thing. Were we in any kind of... Read more |
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Peter Bloom The Democrats Should Stop Wishing on a "Star" and Start Helping to Build a Progressive Movement Only a few months after taking office, President Trump have confirmed all the worst fears of progressives and liberals. From his potential ties to Russia to his almost beyond belief retrogressive... Read more |
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Ari Berman Neil Gorsuch Is Not Another Scalia. He’s the Next John Roberts. W hen John Roberts was nominated as chief justice of the Supreme Court in 2005, Senator Ted Kennedy asked him: “You do agree, don’t you, Judge Roberts, that the right to vote is a fundamental... Read more |
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Robert Reich President Trump and the Crisis of Governance America is in a crisis of governance. There is no adult in charge. Instead, we have as president an unhinged narcissistic child who tweets absurd lies and holds rallies to prop up his fragile ego,... Read more |
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Brandon DeBot House GOP’s Proposed "Fix" for Health Bill Prioritizes Tax Cuts for Richest In their updated health bill , House Republicans are doubling down on their plan to cut taxes for high-income households while cutting health insurance for mostly low- and moderate-income households... Read more |
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Michael Winship 'There’s a Smell of Treason in the Air' Monday’s hearing of the House Intelligence Committee was proof positive of the absolute need for both a special prosecutor and an independent, bipartisan commission with subpoena power to conduct a... Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Words Not to Die For By way of explaining his eight failed marriages, the American bandleader Artie Shaw once remarked , “I am an incurable optimist.” In reality, Artie was an incurable narcissist. Utterly devoid of self... Read more |
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Roger Bybee The Republican’s Healthcare Plan Puts “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” in a Whole New Light After seven long years, the Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act has finally come lurching across America’s political stage, devised by House Speaker Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin,... Read more |
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Juan Cole It Is Comey Who Should Be Investigated FBI Director James Comey confirmed Monday that his agency has since last summer been investigating the circle of Donald J. Trump for their contacts with the Russian Federation during last year’s... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel An 'America Last' Budget President Trump’s “America First” budget is headlined by its big hike in military spending, which Trump touts as “one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.” The... Read more |
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Conn Hallinan These Are the Elections That Will Decide Europe’s Fate Going in to the recent elections in the Netherlands, the mainstream story seemed lifted from William Butler Yeats poem, The Second Coming : “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold — The best lack... Read more |
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Norman Eisen, Richard Painter Trump's Unprecedented War on Ethics The government watchdog organization we help lead called upon the White House last week to investigate whether one of its senior officials, Christopher Liddell, violated ethics laws through acting in... Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Reality and the 'Made in the U.S.A.' Famine in Yemen This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby prepared a presentation for a local high school. She’ll team up with a young friend of ours, himself a... Read more |
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Michael Winship The Trump GOP Prescription for America: Don’t Get Sick Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump still insists he’s going to Make America Great Again! Mind you, it won’t be a healthy or vigorous America — in fact, it will be coughing and wheezing to the... Read more |
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Lynn Sherr Memo to the Media: How Not to Cover the President Dear esteemed colleagues, former colleagues and other members of the responsible media I’ve never met: I am not being sarcastic. Honest. I respect your work and I know that you — we — are the only... Read more |
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Chris Hedges A Last Chance for Resistance The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental. No regime planning to utterly extinguish civil liberties advertises its intentions in advance. It pays lip service to... Read more |
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Chye-Ching Huang Tax Cuts for the Rich at Heart of Paul Ryan's Attack on Medicaid House Speaker Paul Ryan has made a key Republican motive for pushing ahead with the House GOP health plan explicit in recent interviews: [1] passing the health package first facilitates deeper tax... Read more |
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Will Bunch Gone: Chuck Berry, Jimmy Breslin, and Their Great American Middle Class When they say that Baby Boomers didn't make anything, don't you believe them. We manufactured Celebrities, by the truckload -- on the TV shows we watched religiously while eating our Pop Tarts after... Read more |
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Lois Marie Gibbs Trump’s EPA Cuts: No One Will Protect Us President Donald Trump’s deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency terrify me. They will gut the agency, removing protections for American families and our children. As I travel from one... Read more |
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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 |