Category: Politics

The Trump Virus
by Hamilton Fish | Mar 27, 2020 | Health, PoliticsIt’s too soon to know whether Trump’s slow-motion and deadly response to the coronavirus outbreak will contribute to his political undoing. But even that enticing prospect offers little consolation, measured against the reality that this rudderless nation has been left flatfooted in the face of an advancing plague. Trump spent months minimizing the known threat. […]

Changes in the Electorate Signal Close Florida Race
by Karen Houppert | Mar 26, 2020 | Election 2020, PoliticsAt a Three Kings Day Festival on January 5, in Kissimmee, Florida, the line for free toys snakes around the edge of a dais, along a pond, and down to the road, as some 100 families in the queue zigzag around mud patches and swampy soil. A local Spanish-language radio host entertains over a microphone, […]

A Letter to Trump Voters
by Ralph Nader | Feb 15, 2020 | Election 2020, PoliticsI want to address this note to Trump supporters and others who may be considering voting for him. You are the ones stereotyped by critics as being all alike in your hatreds, resentments, closed minds, prejudices, and fears. While you may hoot and holler at his mass rallies, people like you defy these stereotypes back […]

Debt Wrong: Dealing With College Costs and the College Debt Crisis
by Steven Pressman | Feb 12, 2020 | EconomyAs the presidential race heats up, two contentious and related issues concerning higher education have begun to take center stage—whether to make tuition free and what to do about Americans drowning in college debt. The Democrats running for president have struggled mightily with these issues. Before we get to solutions, let’s review the problems. The […]

Trump Signs Measure Enabling Establishment of U.S. Space Force
by Karl Grossman | Jan 29, 2020 | PoliticsPresident Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2020 that establishes a United States Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces—in defiance of the multilateral Outer Space Treaty that, since 1967, has designated space as a global commons to be used for peaceful purposes. Flanked by top defense and […]
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