By Juan Cole – Rep Steve King of Iowa (whose constituents should be ashamed to show their faces in public went full-on racist again, supporting hate-speech master Geert Wilders in his quixotic quest to reverse globalization and ban Muslims from Europe.
The American Health Care Act that is designated to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is racing through Congressional Committees towards adoption in the House and eventually in the Senate.
The effort to repeal and replace health care is generating headlines, and the attempt to investigate our 45th President’s Russia connections is of high importance. The specious claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower…
In “A Tale of Two Cities,” Charles Dickens contrasted the plight of the poor in France with the lavish wealth of the aristocracy, the city of need with the city of greed. That harsh exploitation eventually erupted in the French Revolution, and the brutal revenge of the revolutionaries on their former oppressors.
We have had more than forty days and forty nights of the Trump presidency and the federal system in America is suffering from what has become a situation of chronic chaos. Trump’s state of the union address gave…
Eighty HBCU Presidents did a “fly in” to the White House in a meeting organized by Trump whisperer Omarosa, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), and others. There was a White House meeting, a meeting at the Library of Congress, and more buzz than that which comes from a bee hive.
By Mark Weisbrot – It is nice to see the term “deep state” popping up more than ever in mainstream media discussions of the Trump transition. I prefer “permanent government,” though, because it has fewer conspiratorial overtones, and this is not about conspiracy theories. In fact, it has become perhaps more open than ever.
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. – Anticipating and sitting through President Trump’s address to Congress last night was arduous, to say the least. There are so many things that can be said about the speech, not the least being how many inaccuracies were mouthed by Trump. I wish that I could say that was the most disturbing part, but it was not.
By Alexandra Rosenmann – “Some of the biggest backers of Donald Trump’s presidency were for-profit prison operators.”
Next week, March 7, will mark the 52nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the historic march and shocking police riot in Selma, Alabama, that helped build public support for passage of the Voting Rights Act. Now, a half-century later, an avowed critic of that law…
The unfortunate election of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency of the United States speaks volumes about the limits of African American involvement in the political system. Don’t get me wrong. I was born and will live and die a political junkie…
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