Showing results for: Barack Obama (page 61)
Trump’s dismal foreign policy record: Lost wars, new conflicts and broken promises
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
Trump won the White House promising an end to "endless war." But the reality has been more pointless carnage
Judge rules that Dakota Access Pipeline must be shut down and emptied
Matthew Rozsa
Surprisingly, the controversial pipeline's shutdown came about due to the Army Corps of Engineers' own legal error
Mike Flynn swears allegiance to QAnon in Fourth of July video
Roger Sollenberger
Flynn tagged his lawyers and an organization founded by Charlie Daniels, who died two days later
How the Trump team turned “an abundance of caution” into a lack of concern
Sophia A. McClennen
Team Trump's misuse of the phrase "an abundance of caution" encapsulates everything wrong with his administration
Joni Ernst: Obama “failed” the response to Ebola, but Trump is “stepping forward” on coronavirus
Igor Derysh
Coronavirus deaths under Trump: 132,000. Ebola deaths under Obama: 2
Hollowed-out public health system faces more cuts amid coronavirus crisis
Lauren Weber, Laura Ungar, Michelle R. Smith
The U.S. public health system lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst health crisis in a century.
Trump administration uses faulty data to speed up meatpacking production
Sarah Okeson
More than 1,100 hogs slaughtered every hour as the pandemic cuts a deadly swath through the workforce
Return of “Sharpiegate”: Inspector general battles Secretary Wilbur Ross over release of report
Alex Henderson
Commerce Department inspector general battles Secretary Ross over the release of NOAA "Sharpiegate" report
Is Camden a model for police reform? Activists who live there don’t think so
Igor Derysh
The most dangerous city in the U.S. dissolved its police; crime plummeted. Some say the truth is more complicated
Unemployment rate drops slightly in June, remains in double digits
Matthew Rozsa
Experts weigh in on the meaning of the surprising 2.2% decline in unemployment, and whether it can be sustained
As Russian bounty scandal unfolds, remember this: Robert Mueller found plenty of collusion
Amanda Marcotte
Trump's agreement to look the other way on Putin's dark deeds is nothing new — remember the Mueller report?
Dr. Lance Dodes on the dangers of 2020: “Trump is a psychopath who will destroy democracy”
Chauncey DeVega
Former Harvard psychiatrist on the hair-raising months ahead: "Donald Trump cares nothing about anyone else's life"
Trump congratulates fringe QAnon supporter who defeated his chosen candidate
Roger Sollenberger
Lauren Boebert's restaurant, where staff open-carry, was served with a cease-and-desist for opening amid COVID-19
It’s going to be a long four months: Trump and Fox News just keep ramping up the racism
Amanda Marcotte
Desperate to distract from the coronavirus catastrophe, Trump and his media allies are going full-on rabid racism
Jeff Sessions calls renowned Black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. “some criminal”
Igor Derysh
Gates was wrongly arrested in 2009 as he tried to enter his own residence after police received a 911 call
Trump’s “white power” tweet: Our president is now a white-supremacist flasher
Chauncey DeVega
It's nothing new, and it shouldn't be shocking: Winking at white supremacy is how he won in the first place
The Democrats’ dilemma: Supposedly they’re winning — but their leaders keep on losing
Andrew O'Hehir
Democrats could be poised for a national victory — just as the aging leadership faces a generational revolt
To achieve a new New Deal, Democrats must learn from the old one
Edwin Amenta
Similarities between the 1930s and today are hard to ignore
Joe Biden wants to be the next FDR — but that won’t be enough to solve our crises
Matthew Rozsa
Biden is moving to the left... slightly. We'll need much more than that to fix our catastrophes
What will it take to defeat Trumpism?
John Feffer
Learning lessons from the end of the Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and Saddam’s Iraq
Why coronavirus cases vary wildly between U.S. states
Matthew Rozsa
As the federal government throws its hands up, state leaders wield tremendous power to save lives (or not)
Cornel West on this moment of “escalating consciousness” and the need for radical democracy
Chauncey DeVega
Cornel West talks about the bigger paradigm shift we still need — away from military spending and neoliberalism
What the Trump campaign is up to on YouTube? (Hint: It involves aliens, Bin Laden and Ivanka)
Alice Wilder
Mostly stymied from holding his mass rallies, Trump is turning to a different part of the internet
Lindsey Graham breaks with Trump over Obama attack: “I don’t know what he’s talking about”
Matthew Chapman
Graham rejects Trump’s claim Obama is guilty of treason
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