The insidious doublespeak of Trump’s freedom of ‘choice’
Freedom of choice is a venerable American value. Donald Trump’s attachment to it is, however, highly selective. Over the first four months of his administration, Trump has been eagerly promoting the expansion of choice in our economic lives.
Trump is making America a declining power
In his first 100 days back in the White House, Donald Trump has asserted executive power as brazenly as any president in American history. Yet America’s power in the world has sharply declined—not in some odd paradox but rather as the direct result of his imperial thundering.
The most important lesson of Trump’s first hundred days
Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first hundred days, “the first hundred days” of a presidency has become the first test of presidencies. Trump has now revealed the fatuousness of that view.
Gore on Trump
It is abundantly clear, after only three months and one day, that the new Trump administration is attempting to do everything it possibly can to try to halt the transition to a clean energy future and a deep reduction in the burning of fossil fuels. The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis, basically 80% […]
Donald Loves Vladimir
The receipts are all there: Trump’s ties to Putin, media silence, and political corruption. They hope you don’t notice. We do. While the GOP works overtime to downplay it—or outright deny it—the evidence continues to pile up.
