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Tag: Trump
A New Deal for US foreign policy
Instead of grieving for the past, or focusing on whether world leaders laughed at or with President Trump at the United Nations, grassroots progressives
I Know the Identity of the anonymous Op-Ed writer
The last editorial I wrote for Occasional Planet was on the dangers of a potential post-Trump “unity government”. Consisting of centrists and ostensibly anti-Trump
Shocked, shocked to hear that Trump is unfit
About that “shocking,” anonymous op-ed in the New York Times: What I find most amazing about all this talk about how the president is
Top Trump official publishes devastating op-ed in New York Times [anonymously]
The New York Times took the rare step, today, of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. The author, an unnamed, senior White House official, delivers
De-naturalization: Trump’s latest weapon in the war on immigrants
The Trump administration is employing a new weapon in its war on immigrants: de-naturalization. Yes, that’s a real word. It’s exactly what it sounds
Hard to tell where the pendulum of normalcy will swing next
After Barack Obama was elected, it seemed that America had a new normalcy, one that some described as “post-racial.” For any who took that
The latest assault on ACA [Obamacare]: DOJ won’t defend it in court
In a dramatic break from a long-standing norm of defending federal laws, Attorney General Jeff Session has announced that the Department of Justice will
The hostage crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border
The Trump administration is holding children hostage. They can call it “family separation.” They can say that it’s meant as a “deterrent” to illegal
North Korea, Iran and 45: a brief study in illogic
To recap: North Korea – Has threatened mission strikes on U.S. land; has missiles capable of said strike; continues to develop nuclear weapons; starving