Category: Politics
Accelerated Change
by Gordon Adams | Mar 9, 2017 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsWell, Trump has certainly done what he promised he would do, and more, especially on foreign policy. No fake news there. In only the first three weeks of his presidency he set in motion an almost total disruption of U.S. foreign policy as we have known it for the last seven decades. From this apparent […]
Shutting Out the Poor
by Alex Kotch | Feb 23, 2017 | PoliticsThroughout his campaign, Donald Trump vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, calling President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement “a disaster.” With a Republican majority in Congress, and a secretary of health and human services who was a leading critic of the ACA while he served in the House, Trump may very […]
Standing Rock: The Protectors
by Madeline Cottingham | Feb 22, 2017 | PoliticsMore than 300 tribes from around the globe came together to unite against the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172-mile pipeline slated to carry crude oil from the Bakken formation in North Dakota to storage facilities in Illinois. The first prayer camps were established in the spring by indigenous youth and by the end of summer, […]
Trumping Judicial Review
by Simon Waxman | Feb 21, 2017 | PoliticsOn March 9, 1937, American radio listeners were treated to some of the most concentrated hogwash in the nation’s political history. It was the first “fireside chat” of Franklin Roosevelt’s second term, and the president was steaming over setbacks to his New Deal policies. He claimed that the Supreme Court—by striking down the Railroad Retirement […]
He’s the Boss
by Leslie Bennetts | Feb 17, 2017 | PoliticsPatricia Bosworth met her future husband in a bar when he punched out a drunk who pinched her bottom. She was only 19, but they married with dizzying speed. He began to abuse her almost as quickly. One night they argued about money, in the back seat of a taxi, and he started hitting her. […]