by Robert Borosage | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog
In his address to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Donald Trump showed he can play the role of president on television. He successfully read a long speech, using all the normal rituals – rhetorical optimism, calls for unity, big promises and small policies,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog
This is classic dumb guy wedding speech writing: "The chorus of their dating became an earthquake of their love." - Samantha Bee on Trump's speech Donald Trump just gave a fact-free, and detail-free, speech to a joint session of Congress. Early on in the evening, the...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog
The bad news for Democrats in President Trump's first speech to a joint session of Congress is that he exceeded expectations. A Washington Post headline called the speech “surprisingly presidential.” it's likely to solidify Trump’s hold on his base, and will...
by Miles Mogulescu | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog
There's a necessary and creative tension between the Democratic Party and the growing anti-Trump 'Resistance' evidenced by the massive outpouring of energy in the streets, airports, and Town Hall meetings since his election. If there was ever any doubt that the...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump met with a bunch of CEOs at the White House last week, prompting the same old, tired and untrue round of assertions that America lost millions of manufacturing jobs because of automation, regulation, illegal immigration and lack of education....
by Xoai Pham | Feb 27, 2017 | Blog
I’m a 21-year-old trans woman. To some, I’m still a kid. To my mother, I’m still a baby. Almost all my life, going to the bathroom had been an easy thing, one of the most basic body functions. I didn’t realize that the bathroom would be such a place of contention...
