The past weeks have brought to the fore two main issues concerning Trump. The first was his doubling down on one central theme of his election campaign, economic nationalism, his charge that most of the rest of the world is exploiting the United States and he will fight back. This has been (...)
After nearly four months of President Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency surrounded by controversies and scandals, the American establishment has decided to take things in hand. That is the meaning of deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein’s appointment of Robert S. Mueller III to serve as (...)
Trump fired FBI Director Comey for one reason: He wasn’t 100 percent loyal to Trump. The boldness of the move was to underscore Trump’s drive to establish an increasingly authoritarian presidency. His ambition is a threat to democratic rights and the already eroded and restricted bourgeois (...)
LET’S ASSUME THAT Russia is actually guilty of everything it’s accused of doing – which I’m personally guessing it probably is – to hack and interfere in the U.S. election (and others, including most recently France). At the very least, it seems clear that these charges are not ideologically (...)
In the nine days from April 22 to May 1 inclusive, there were three important national mobilizations against aspects of the Trump administration’s policies.
The March for Science
The first of these, on April 22, was called by scientists and their supporters following Trump’s election to (...)
President Donald Trump is neither the populist champion of working class underdogs that some of his supporters hoped, nor is he is the fascist dictator that some feared. Coopted by the Republican establishment, he is a dangerous, authoritarian, militarist whose programs threaten the American (...)
The most salient thing in Baltimore isn’t the damage caused by protesters, but the grinding poverty and neglect wrought by capital.
Days before social unrest in Baltimore reached levels unseen in decades, Dan Rodricks, the Baltimore Sun’s resident liberal columnist, painted a picture of Saturday (...)
Defense hawks are starting to lose hope in President Donald Trump’s promises of a “historic” military buildup.
Trump vowed during the campaign to make the military so big and powerful that “nobody — absolutely nobody — is going to mess with us,” and since his inauguration he has rattled sabers at (...)
Tens of thousands, many of them scientists, joined the March for Science on Earth Day, April 22, in cities across the United States and around the world. There were some 400 marches in the US with crowds estimated at 20,000 in New York and Los Angeles, some 15,000 gathered on the Washington (...)
Tens of thousands of Americans in some 200 cities and towns from New York to San Francisco participated in “Tax Day” marches on Saturday, April 15 to demand that President Donald Trump release information about his tax payments. Some protestors marched at the White House and others at the Trump (...)
Trump boasted after Thursday’s air strike in Afghanistan that he has given the military ’total authorization.’
President Donald Trump on Thursday praised the decision to drop a massive bunker-busting bomb in Afghanistan as an example of the “total authorization” he has given his military (...)
The president has steadily increased the use of force, relaxing the rules of engagement and giving his generals free rein.
The cruise-missile attack launched by US destroyers against an air base in western Syria in response to a chemical-weapons attack by Syrian government forces has been (...)
Rarely did such a limited attack as the one launched by the United States by means of cruise missiles against the Syrian air base of Shayrat provoke so much ado. US President Donald Trump authorized the attack in the evening of Thursday 6 April, shortly before having dinner with his Chinese (...)
Military strikes against a Syrian airforce base mark Donald Trump’s first big foreign policy test as president.
The United States’ unilateral missile strikes against a Syrian airforce base are a dramatic escalation of its participation in that country’s civil war. The US government has attacked (...)
The Assad government’s April 4 chemical weapon attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, which killed more than 100 people, once again demonstrated the barbarism of that regime, responsible for countless deaths, sadistic torture and the destruction of much of the country. But it is (...)
The bombing of Syria lays bare the impulsive violence of Trump’s foreign policy and the rot of American democracy.
President Trump has begun bombing Syria . Having found domestic policy difficult, complicated, and time-consuming, he has turned to foreign affairs to try to strike a pose of (...)
Last night, supposedly in response to the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, President Trump ordered a missile attack on a Syrian air base, the first U.S. military strike directly against the regime (though hardly the first U.S. intervention in the war). As socialists and (...)
A new coalition is challenging Trump’s agenda with a radical vision of their own.
Welcome to The Majority, a new coalition encompassing more than 50 organizations and groups, including the Black Lives Matter Global Network. On Thursday, The Majority announced its first national campaign: Beyond (...)
That Trump’s speech to Congress could be greeted with not just tolerance, but relief and even praise, shows how out of touch Washington is, writes Elizabeth Schulte.
“VERY PRESIDENTIAL.” That was the media consensus the day after Donald Trump’s first speech to Congress.
The New York Times, which (...)
Thousands of people showed up at town halls meetings across the United States in February to challenge Republican congressional representatives and senators on their plans for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) as well as on issues from immigration, to the environment, to President Donald (...)
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