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Trump's Russia Flips Flop Trump attempts to walk back Russia comments. Politico: "The White House climb-down from President Donald Trump’s disastrous news conference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin began Monday night, just hours after Trump said he saw 'no...
Trump's Policy Agenda Is an All-Out War on Kids
Donald Trump’s choice to separate migrant children from their parents unleashed a flood of outrage across the political spectrum. While he has been forced to step back from separating families at the border, the administration's solution is to imprison...
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Trump Appeases Putin In Helsinki Trump caved spectacularly to Putin. Here's what might happen next. CNN: "For as long as history remembers Donald Trump, it will be a day that will live in infamy. The President's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki...
Will the Foreign-Policy Elite Learn From Trump?
Is Donald Trump an aberration in our history, whose removal will allow a return to normalcy? Or is he a wake-up call, one that demands a fundamental reworking? Opposing Trump is cheap grace. The real question is what our establishment will learn from his rise.
Treasonous! Impeach! Time’s Up!
As former CIA Director John Brennan just stated, "Donald Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It was nothing short of treasonous." And as the editors of The Washington Post wrote,...
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Trump Meets Putin, Snubs Europe Trump sees the European Union as a 'Foe' of U.S.. CNN: "Trump named the European Union, Russia and China as foes to the United States during an interview at his golf club in Scotland. 'I think we have a lot of foes... I think the...
A Sweet New Century for America’s Most Privileged
The United States ended the 20th century on a roll — for the rich. Between 1973 and 2000, the nation’s most prosperous 1 percent tripled their incomes, after taking inflation into account. The even more prosperous top tenth of that 1 percent did quite a bit better....
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WH Claims Migrant Families "Ineligible" For Reunification Trump officials: Nearly half of young migrants ineligible to reunite with parents. WaPo: "The Trump administration has released more than half of the youngest children separated from their parents at the...
Kavanaugh Would Advance DeVos’s Religious Agenda for Schools
Immediately after Betsy DeVos took over as U.S. Secretary of Education, numerous education policy experts expressed doubts she'd have much success in enacting her well-documented agenda to impose her brand of Christian religion on public schools and direct more public...
How ‘Janus’ Will Boost Income Inequality in America
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision against workers in the Janus vs. AFSCME case surprised no one who pays attention to America’s highest judicial panel. Every analyst following the case expected the Supremes to rule against America’s public sector unions. And that’s...
