Category: Politics
The Wide Angle: Trump’s Peace Plan? Nuclear Blackmail.
by Dave Troy | Apr 30, 2024 | Foreign Policy, The Wide AngleA little-remembered magazine interview from 1987 may hold clues about what Trump and Putin are ultimately up to. What was on Trump’s mind back then — besides dispensing unsolicited foreign policy advice in full page newspaper ads? Nothing less than making a deal with the Soviets to jointly seize the world’s nuclear weapons and thus […]
A Tale of Two Policies
by Steven Pressman | Apr 30, 2024 | EconomyNovember will bring a rare election between a former and current President. Both passed landmark legislation that transformed the US economy. One bill provided large tax breaks for corporations and the rich. The other helped people survive during Covid by expanding social safety net programs. In December 2017, Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans passed the […]
The Heritage Foundation’s Racist Origins and What That History Tells Us
by Nancy MacLean | Apr 30, 2024 | EducationWhat will the prescriptions in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 mean for parents, public schools, and multiracial democracy? The law professor and social critic Kimberlé W. Crenshaw interviewed historian Nancy MacLean recently at a “Homeroom” webinar of the Freedom to Learn Coalition, which plans a nationwide series of events on May 3. The following slightly […]
Diary of a Transit Miracle
by Charles Komanoff | Apr 26, 2024 | EconomyA miracle is coming to New York City. Beginning on July 1, and barring a last-minute hitch, motorists will soon pay a hefty $15 to enter the southern half of Manhattan — the area bounded by the Hudson River, the East River and 60th Street. An anticipated 15 percent or so of drivers will switch […]
Fascism is not Patriotism
by Mark Green | Apr 16, 2024 | PoliticsApril 19, 2025. WASHINGTON (AP)—At the direction of Donald Trump, forty-seventh president of the United States, Attorney General Ken Paxton yesterday sent teams of FBI agents to the residences of General Mark Milley, Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton. Knocking on their doors at precisely 9 a.m., the lead agents identically told each of their targets, […]