Category: Politics
What Does Putin Have on Trump?
by Bob Dreyfuss | Nov 20, 2024 | Books, National SecurityA pair of books released weeks before the election, written by key players in the post-2016 investigation of Donald Trump’s multiple ties to Russia, brings our attention back to something that Republicans say is a hoax and Democrats seem all too ready to forget: that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin apparently has leverage over the Manhattan […]
Donald J. Ponzi
by Steven Pressman | Nov 1, 2024 | Election 2024Donald Trump is a habitual liar. Despite his constant denials, most people believe he slept with a porn star and then paid her to keep their liaison quiet. Certainly the New York jury that found him guilty of 34 felonies for falsifying business records didn’t buy his story. However, big lies sometimes work. Public opinion […]
Will Attacking Trump as a Dangerous Threat Enable Harris to Eke Out a Victory?
by Art Levine | Oct 25, 2024 | Election 2024With the election little more than a week away, the political scientist and strategist Rachel Bitecofer, author of the tough-minded Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts, sees some grounds for optimism about Kamala Harris in a nail-biting race that is effectively tied and still too close to call. As a confidential advisor to some campaigns in […]
Turn the Page on this Cold War Relic
by Robert Rudney | Oct 10, 2024 | National SecurityOn July 8th, the Defense Department announced that it was not going to terminate the Air Force’s troubled Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), but would instead sink more taxpayer dollars into a weapons system estimated to cost $140.9 billion, an increase of 81% over an initial 2020 estimate of $77.7 billion. The Sentinel ICBMs—with a […]
What Mueller Missed
by Bob Dreyfuss | Oct 3, 2024 | PoliticsWhen it comes to Donald Trump, it’s always about one thing: money. So why, you might ask, didn’t the various investigations of Trump’s Russia connection — by special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI, by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, by several House committees, by the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety
Editor’s Picks
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By Anthony Barnett
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Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy
By Hamilton Fish
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God and QR Codes for Trump; The Courage Tour Goes to Michigan
By Anne Nelson
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Project 2025: The Latest Plot Against America
By Anne Nelson
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What Does Putin Have on Trump?
By Bob Dreyfuss