Category: Politics
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan: The Wrong Road for America
by Steven Pressman | Apr 11, 2018 | PoliticsThe signs of a U.S. infrastructure crisis are unmistakable—derailing trains, crumbling roadways, undrinkable tap water, and wastewater systems that endanger public health. Twenty-three U.S. bridges have collapsed since 2000. The American Society of Civilian Engineers gave U.S. infrastructure a D+ grade in 2017, proclaiming $1.5 trillion’s worth of improvements was required over the next decade. […]
In an Anti-Trump Moment, Pledge Signers Commit to a Populist Economic Agenda
by Richard Eskow | Apr 1, 2018 | PoliticsSome Democratic Party leaders are investing their hopes for 2018 on voters like Pennsylvania’s Judy Delaney. “I figured the lesser of two evils was Trump,” Delaney told The New York Times recently. “Now I’m second-guessing myself. Because he’s nuts.” Will simply not being “nuts” be enough to ensure victory for Democratic candidates in November? The […]
New Nuclear Policy Expands Arms Race With Russia, China
by Robert Alvarez | Mar 19, 2018 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsPresident Trump’s recently released Nuclear Posture Review reflects an enduring struggle by the U.S. nuclear weapons establishment to fit into the post–Cold War world. For decades following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union built grossly oversized nuclear arsenals and never envisioned having to stop. The perverse logic of this nuclear rivalry […]
Iran and Honduras: A Tale of Two Protests
by Belén Fernández | Mar 16, 2018 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsWhen scattered protests broke out in Iran at the end of December, Donald Trump took enthusiastically to Twitter to interpret the events for the rest of the world: “The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime. The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The US […]
Dysfunction Hobbles Trump Justice Initiatives
by Andrew Cohen | Feb 20, 2018 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsAs we enter Trump’s second year in office, our “tough-on-crime” president and his attorney general have failed or refused, in their first year in office, to fill six key Justice Department posts with Senate-confirmed picks. Vital federal law enforcement agencies—the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and the U.S. Marshals […]
Bad Faith Documentary
