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Jake Johnson Dance on the Grave of the TPP The Trans-Pacific Partnership was effectively dead before Donald Trump's inauguration but, somehow, it always seemed poised to emerge from the grave and walk among the living once more. But now it... Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn The Injustices of Manning’s Ordeal After overseeing the aggressive prosecution and near-seven-year incarceration of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, President Obama – in one of his last acts in office – commuted all but four months... Read more |
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Chuck Collins Most Trump Voters Didn't Vote to Make Richest Richer, But GOP Congress Is About To Donald Trump’s voters have high hopes that he’ll boost the economy and protect jobs for those who’ve been left behind after three decades of flat or shrinking paychecks. They didn’t vote to make the... Read more |
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Les Leopold If Progressives Want to Defeat Trump, They Must Win Back Workers During the Sanders campaign I heard a high level official give a powerful speech blasting the Trans-Pacific Partnership Act (TPP) for the harm it would bring to workers, environmentalists and to all... Read more |
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Dave Johnson Trump Declares TPP Still Dead. So Now What? President Trump formally withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Though TPP was killed by a long progressive fight that resulted in it not having the votes to pass Congress, of... Read more |
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Peter Dreier, Donald Cohen Turning the March Into a Movement Saturday’s day of protest—against Donald Trump and for women’s equality—was successful in two significant ways. First, it was the largest one-day protest in American history. Based on news reports... Read more |
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Andrew Cohen Okay. Let's Have That Investigation into "Voter Fraud" The scary part of the still-developing "voter fraud" story isn't that President Donald Trump evidently buys into a conspiracy theory that supports both his worldview and his ego. The scary part is... Read more |
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Bill McKibben From Faith to Action: Fossil Fuel Divestment More Vital Than Ever In a world where too many institutions now worship power and wealth, the Church remains a citadel of the word, a place where ideas matter. And words have rarely been used with more power than by Pope... Read more |
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Dean Baker It’s Austerity, Not Globalization, That Pulls European Workers to the Right Both the Washington Post ( 1/22/17 ) and New York Times ( 1/22/17 ) had pieces about declining support for the left in France and the rise of a nationalist right in both Italy and France. Both pieces... Read more |
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David Macaray The Existential Threat of Trump's Genius When people blur the relationship between facts and reality—when they jettison what has long been accepted as the basis of “verifiable evidence”—they put themselves in the awkward position of... Read more |
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Nick Dearden The Death of the Toxic Trade Deal TPP Was Long Overdue - But Don’t Praise Trump for It It’s good news that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead. In fact, the toxic deal – a pacific version of US-EU deal TTIP – was already dead before Trump took office. Popular pressure from... Read more |
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Jim Lobe Who Will Rule Trump Foreign Policy? The most frightening commentary I’ve read in the run-up to the inauguration—and there have been many—appeared in a column identifying the four people whose foreign policy ideas were likely to be most... Read more |
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Naomi Klein Get Ready for the First Shocks of Trump’s Disaster Capitalism We already know that the Trump administration plans to deregulate markets, wage all-out war on “radical Islamic terrorism,” trash climate science and unleash a fossil-fuel frenzy. It’s a vision that... Read more |
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Stephanie Woodard The Never-Ending Indian Wars The following is part of a YES! Magazine special report: The Spirit of Standing Rock on the Move. The world has been shocked by North Dakota’s violent reaction to the anti-oil pipeline resistance at... Read more |
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Rachel Cleetus Gutting the EPA Hurts Real People News reports indicate that the Trump administration has big plans underway to undermine the work of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the lead agency working to protect our health and the... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Why Trump’s Con Can’t Last Forever From the start of his short, truculent and unabashedly populist inaugural address, President Trump called out the Washington establishment: “For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump's Infrastructure Scam Our country is in dire need of massive investments in infrastructure, but what Donald Trump is proposing is nothing more than a huge tax giveaway for the rich. 1. It’s a giant public subsidy to... Read more |
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Laurie Garrett Gag Me: Trump's Anti-Abortion Executive Order Here we go again. The bad old days of United States foreign assistance are coming back, now that President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating the global gag rule on overseas... Read more |
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John Feffer A Globalism of the 1%: Donald Trump Against the World Donald Trump is a worldly fellow. He travels the globe on his private jet. He’s married to a Slovene and divorced from a Czech. He doesn’t speak any other languages, but hey, he’s an American, so... Read more |
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Libero Della Piana Tuesday Senate Protests Mark The Next Step In The Resistance The massive Women’s March in Washington last Saturday started off with a bang the resistance to the incoming administration of Donald Trump and his policies. The breadth and scale of the myriad... Read more |
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Mark T. Harris Dawn of the Resistance As someone once said, a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts its boots on. In the 2016 presidential election, right-wing billionaire Donald Trump’s lies may have carried him... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Trumpeting Scorn: The Darkest Political Speech in US History “O! what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip.” — Shakespeare, Twelfth Night It was described as a dark speech. It could have been described as a speech filled with... Read more |
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Jeremy Malcolm Does Trump's Withdrawal From TPP Signal a New Approach to Trade Agreements? Today, President Trump signed an executive order fulfilling his campaign promise to withdraw the signature of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). Although EFF was a... Read more |
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Chris Hedges Revolt Is the Only Barrier to a Fascist America This is a transcript of a talk Chris Hedges gave at the Inaugurate the Resistance rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. The ruling elites, terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s, or... Read more |
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Ben Lilliston Tillerson’s Damaging Record of Extraction and Opposing Climate Action Rural communities in the U.S. and around the world are vulnerable to industries, often with headquarters elsewhere, who view local natural resources simply as an asset to be extracted. No global... Read more |
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Yanis Varoufakis We Need an Alternative to Trump's Nationalism. It Isn't the Status Quo A clash of two insurgencies is now shaping the west. Progressives on both sides of the Atlantic are on the sidelines, unable to comprehend what they are observing. Donald Trump’s inauguration marks... Read more |
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy Watch Out For the Swamp Monster As I write this, President Trump is starting his first full week in the White House. So I do not yet know – does anyone? – how he will change the way the federal government works. But I hope his... Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu From March To Movement The Women’s March (or should I say Marches) were among the most inspiring events of my lifetime. As a middle aged man who has been marching for social and economic justice since I was very young, I... Read more |
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Bill McKibben With the Rise of Trump, Is It Game Over for the Climate Fight? One possibility is, we’ve lost. It’s a real possibility, and we should consider it carefully instead of ignoring it because it’s emotionally unpalatable. I think the argument would go like this: The... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt How Not To Predict the Future They call themselves the U.S. “ Intelligence Community ,” or the IC. If you include the office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which in 2005 began as a crew of 12 people , including... Read more |
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David Uberti Don’t Let Trump Get Away with ‘Alternative Facts’ Call them what you will—whoppers, untruths, lies—but casual falsehoods have been the hallmark of President Donald Trump’s young political career. The latest example came on Saturday, when White House... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Facts That Our War-Happy Leaders Would Like To Keep Hushed Up Donald Trump said, "I’m going to make our military so big, so powerful, so strong, that nobody — absolutely nobody — is gonna mess with us." Simple-minded but deadly thinking at the top derives from... Read more |
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Sarah Freeman-Woolpert The History of Anti-Authoritarian Struggle is a History Worth Repeating Throughout his campaign, critics have drawn comparisons between Donald Trump and authoritarian leaders from the past. From his proposed plans to create a Muslim registry, to threats against... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump’s Two-Step Strategy To Take Over the Truth Donald Trump is such a consummate liar that in coming days and years our democracy will depend more than ever on the independent press – finding the truth, reporting it, and holding Trump accountable... Read more |
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Rhea Suh Standing Up for Our Values in the Age of Trump Donald Trump opened his presidency Friday with actions directly at odds with American values, job creation, and prosperity—actions at odds even with his own inaugural address . As he vowed to hold... Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Hey, NYT–the ‘Relentless Populist’ Relented Long Ago In the New York Times ‘ lead news analysis after Donald Trump’s inauguration ( 1/20/17 ), White House correspondent Mark Landler wrote of Trump, “It remains an open question whether he will continue... Read more |
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Hannah Norman Solidarity—Plus 10 Other Reasons Women Showed Up to March An ocean of hand crafted signs and pink knitted hats flooded the capital a day after Donald Trump took office. Officials estimated over 500,000 marchers in Washington, D.C. Thousands of others took... Read more |
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Brett Max Kaufman In First of Many, ACLU FOIA Request Seeks Information About the New President’s Conflicts of Interests During the Trump administration, our country faces an unprecedented constellation of threats to the regular oversight processes that keep the powers that be in check. Faced with attacks on... Read more |
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Adrienne Alvord A Climate Action Roadmap: California Steps Up in Uncertain Times The New Year ushers in a new U.S. presidential administration and a lot of uncertainty and angst for people who care about taking decisive action on climate change ( polls indicate that’s most of us... Read more |
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Michael Winship, Bill Moyers At Trump Inauguration, His Hollow Rhetoric Collides with Reality Throughout the campaign and the transition period leading up to the Inauguration, whenever Donald Trump was caught lying or tweeting something outrageous we were told by his acolytes that we should... Read more |
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Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman We Are Mourning…But We Are Marching And Organizing for Democracy and the Earth In the midst of a terrible national illness, we organize and march for the known and solid cures. For democracy and our natural planet. We have clear direction on both issues. This weekend's massive... Read more |
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Juan Cole Translating Trump’s Inaugural Speech From the Original German Donald Trump’s inaugural speech , like the candidate himself, was a chain of falsehoods, saber-rattling and scary Neofascist uber-nationalism. But it could be difficult to follow because so much of... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Alabama—Past and Present All over Alabama the lights are out. — James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men With all the excitement about events in Washington this week, it’s easy to overlook exciting events in Alabama. Among... Read more |
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Steven Singer Trump Says Our Schools Are “Flush with Cash!?” They’re Falling Apart! Donald Trump lies. If you haven’t learned that yet, America, you’ve got four more cringe-inducing years to do so. Even in his inaugural address , he couldn’t help but let loose a whooper about US... Read more |
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Bill Moyers Lest We Forget In this web exclusive, Bill Moyers and four historians dissect the big lie Trump rode to power: the Birther lie. Nell Painter , historian and Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at... Read more |
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John Nichols Donald Trump Has No Mandate—Sad! Donald Trump is assuming the presidency without a mandate from the people—and this fact drives him crazy. For the tens of millions of Americans preparing to oppose his administration and its... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Greater Expectations: Anti-Trump Forces Should Aspire to Much More In response to the collective feelings of dread at the dawn of Donald Trump’s presidency, a new and determined mass movement seems to have formed. The most tangible expression of that movement is the... Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Trump's Inaugural Address: A Call for Holy War President Donald Trump used his inaugural address to call for the “civilized world” to unite “against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.” It... Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit We Could’ve Avoided President Donald Trump. Now, We Must Learn the Lessons The road to President Trump was long and bumpy. There were many turns not taken, countless alternative routes that would have spared us this outcome. Instead, we kept going, corruption, infighting... Read more |
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Peter Dreier American Fascist I have watched, listened to, and read many commentaries on the inaugural address but so far none of the mainstream pundits have used the one word that best identifies Donald Trump: fascist. The... Read more |
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Matt Taibbi Remembering Trump Biographer and Reporter Wayne Barrett Wayne Barrett, an icon of New York journalism and one of the great muckrakers of our time, died Thursday. W ayne was New York's iconoclast-in-chief for many years, in particular the Eighties and... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Inauguration Day: Letter to a Trump Voter We don’t know each other. But today, on the occasion of Donald Trump’s inauguration, there were some things I wanted to say to you as one American to another. (I’m willing to listen, too.) Let’s get... Read more |
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Bob Burnett It’s Midnight in America Thirty-three years ago, Ronald Reagan was elected President in large part because of his TV ad, It's morning in America : "It's morning again in America, and under the leadership of President Reagan... Read more |
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Christian Christensen Until He Shows Respect, We Owe Donald Trump Nothing But Resistance A Swedish language version of this article ran today in Aftonbladet , a daily newspaper in Sweden. Today, Donald John Trump was officially sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of... Read more |
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Richard Heinberg A Good Day for a Walk in the Woods Not since the Civil War has an American presidential Inauguration Day been so fraught with fear and dread (on February 23, 1861, Abraham Lincoln traveled to his inauguration under military guard,... Read more |
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Yifat Susskind A Beginning, Not an End: My Open Letter To You on Inauguration Day Today is the beginning. It may be the start of the Trump Administration, but let it also be the inauguration of something much more powerful: a renewed feminist social justice movement that takes... Read more |
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Christopher D. Cook Trump’s Attack on America As "President" Trump assumes the Oval Office amid historically rock-bottom public support, the clatter of partisan battling and liberal anger clutters a harsher reality. This moment isn’t about how... Read more |
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Julie Matthaei The Women’s March on Washington and the Coming of Age of Feminism For those who believe in equality and solidarity, and face the outrage of the upcoming Trump inauguration, it is heartening to witness the Women’s March on Washington take shape. The March represents... Read more |
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Rick Claypool Corporate Contributors to Trump Inauguration Seek to Curry Favor Despite the incoming administration of President-Elect Donald Trump’s efforts to keep inauguration donors secret, The New York Times has reported seven of the event’s corporate donors: AT&T, Bank... Read more |
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RoseAnn DeMoro Access to Buying Insurance Is Not Health Coverage A signature exchange early in the first Senate hearing Wednesday for Rep. Tom Price in his nomination to be the next Health and Human Services Secretary illustrates a lot about our still damaged... Read more |
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Jack Serle, Abigail Fielding-Smith Trump, Obama and the Future of Targeted Killing Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy is often discussed in terms of things he didn’t do: intervene in Syria, reset with Russia, get out of Afghanistan. In one area however, Obama developed and... Read more |
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Steven Harper The Trump Resistance Plan: Step One The king and his worthless adherents are got at their old game of dividing the continent, and there are not wanting among us, printers, who will be busy in spreading specious falsehoods… — Thomas... Read more |
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Elizabeth Warren Trump’s Nominees Putting Us All at Risk by Ignoring Ethics Laws President-elect Donald Trump is selecting nominees to run his government. It’s no secret that I have deep reservations about the policy views of many of these nominees. I will vote against some of... Read more |
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Zephyr Teachout Donald Trump Will Violate the Constitution on Day One T hus far, the debate over Donald Trump’s refusal to sell his assets has focused on whether he might use his position to make himself even wealthier, in ways that most people would regard as corrupt... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Caution: Not All Attacks on Trump Are Created Equal Thirty-five Democrats in the House have sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch urging her to appoint an independent Special Counsel because Donald Trump “has repeatedly engaged in actions... Read more |
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Jake Johnson Bernie Sanders Said America Is Not a Compassionate Country. The Numbers Say He's Right. On Wednesday, Bernie Sanders had his chance to question Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Asked if he would work to ensure that every... Read more |
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Gonzalo Martínez de Vedia, Jeremy Haile How to Stop Trump: Lessons From the Tea Party Donald Trump represents a grave threat to liberal democratic values. On Capitol Hill, Republicans are falling in line and some moderate Democrats have signaled a willingness to cut deals. But... Read more |
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William deBuys New From Trump University: Election Rigging 101 Donald Trump was right. The election was rigged. What Trump got wrong (and, boy, does he get things wrong) is that the rigging worked in his favor. The manipulations took three monumental forms:... Read more |
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Isaiah Poole Millions of Reasons – Plus One Big One – To Block Tom Price’s Nomination A school bus driver living in Slatington, Pa., writes that three years ago she was beginning to feel ill, but thought nothing of it until one morning, while checking the bus before starting her route... Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder Big Trump Protests Are Fine, But Here’s a To-Do List for Lasting Change As the Trump regime rolls out, the need for building local power becomes startlingly clear. Many will march in the Women’s March on Saturday, and that promises to be an important statement against... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Tomorrow Is Today The icon’s day has come and gone, and — oh, the irony — eight people were fatally shot in Chicago on his weekend. Another eight were shot during a Martin Luther King rally and celebration in Miami... Read more |
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Betsy Hartmann Making Music Out of the Post-Inaugural Blues It’s a beautiful thing, the refusal of big-name singers like Celine Dion, Elton John, and Garth Brooks to perform at Trump’s inauguration. Their absence has Trump’s spin doctors grasping at straws... Read more |
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Robert Reich Four Takeaways from Trump’s Latest Tweet Tantrum This morning Donald Trump bashed NBC, tweeting: “Totally biased NBCNews went out of its way to say that the big announcement from Ford, G.M., Lockheed & others that jobs are coming back to the U... Read more |
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Frances Fox Piven Throw Sand in the Gears of Everything A s many are saying, we woke from a nightmare to find it was our new reality. A gaggle of inflated far-right self-promoters and operatives, big businessmen and their toadies, and homegrown fascists... Read more |
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Jeremy Scahill Trump Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lied to the Senate There are many reasons Betsy DeVos’s nomination to serve as Donald Trump’s education secretary could be justifiably quashed by the U.S. Senate. Her long public record indicates she is a religious... Read more |
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Laura Tanenbaum , Mark Engler When Women Revolted Fifty years ago, feminist organizing in the United States entered a vibrant new phase of activity. While pinning down an exact starting date is a controversial endeavor, several major events in the... Read more |
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Josh Hoxie Health Care Repeal Is a Stealth Tax Break for Millionaires Great magicians are masters of diversion. They attract our attention with one hand while using the other to trick us into thinking a supernatural act is taking place. But even the best street... Read more |
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Steven Singer Ignorance and Arrogance – the Defining Characteristics of the Betsy DeVos Hearing Betsy DeVos wouldn’t commit to protecting students with special needs. She wouldn’t commit to keeping guns out of school campuses . She wouldn’t commit to holding charter and voucher schools to the... Read more |
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Tim Koechlin Déjà vu All Over Again: The GOP Prepares to Make the Rich Even Richer As the Republican Congress begins to execute its latest attack on poor and middle class Americans (the repeal of the Affordable Care Act; cuts in education spending, Social Security and Medicare;... Read more |
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Ira Chernus Moving Beyond Resistance In the very early morning hours of November 9 , when we learned that Donald Trump—however improbably and perhaps illegitimately—would be the next president of the United States, a battle broke out... Read more |
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Nisha Swinton Why Susan Collins (and All Senators) Must Stand Against Pruitt When it was announced that Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Maine's U.S. Sen. Susan Collins reportedly said, “I don’t know... Read more |
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Dana Gold Obama Should Pardon Snowden as Well as Manning President Obama’s brave and principled decision to commute Chelsea Manning’s remaining 35-year prison sentence highlights the equally strong need to pardon whistleblower Edward Snowden. Offering a... Read more |
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Trevor Timm Chelsea Manning Did the Right Thing. Finally, Barack Obama Has Too here is no one who has suffered more under the US government’s crackdown on leakers and whistleblowers than Chelsea Manning. But now, after President Obama commuted her unjust 35 year jail sentence... Read more |
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Jim Hightower We Can Beat Back the Reign of Trump Buckle up, friends. Most Americans are about to be detoured onto a rough and rocky back road called "Trump Way." The autocratic tycoon was unabashed on the campaign trail in promising his victory... Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Michael Winship We Cannot Wait for History to Judge. We Need the Truth About Trump and Russia Now. Over the holidays, John Farrell, author of an upcoming biography of Richard Nixon, wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times confirming what many of us have known for nearly 50 years: In the fall of... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Beyond the Spasmodic and Petty: An Open Letter to President-Elect Donald Trump President-Elect Donald Trump Trump Tower 725 5th Ave New York, NY 10022 Dear President-Elect Trump, You’ve come a long way without my advice, but ascension to the White House invites listening to... Read more |
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Gretchen Goldman Can President Trump Uphold Scientific Integrity in Government Decisionmaking? New Report Tells What’s At Stake Last week, the US Department of Energy released a revised scientific integrity policy in what was likely the last move by the Obama administration to promote scientific integrity in federal decision-... Read more |
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Another Demand for Russian ‘Hacking’ Proof MEMORANDUM FOR: President Barack Obama FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: A Key Issue That Still Needs to be Resolved As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take... Read more |
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Adam Markham Nine Questions for Ryan Zinke, Donald Trump’s Pick to Lead the Interior Department Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke will begin Senate confirmation hearings today for the post of Secretary of Interior in Donald Trump’s cabinet. As Secretary, he would oversee America’s 500 million... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Booker and the Big Pharma Dems Have No Excuse. This Vote Proves It. It’s devastating, and potentially lethal, when Americans can’t afford life-saving drugs because their elected representatives are in thrall to Big Pharma. It’s disappointing when Democrats offer... Read more |
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Joanne Barkan Milton Friedman, Betsy DeVos, and the Privatization of Public Education Milton Friedman, patron saint of the free market, died in 2006, but his ideas about public education live on in the thought and deeds of Betsy DeVos, likely the next U.S. Secretary of Education. The... Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Escalation Watch: Four Looming Flashpoints Facing President Trump Within months of taking office, President Donald Trump is likely to face one or more major international crises, possibly entailing a risk of nuclear escalation. Not since the end of the Cold War has... Read more |
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Lee Saunders Dr. King, Labor Leader The photograph is iconic. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., only 39 years old but the nation’s most prominent civil rights leader, lay fatally wounded on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. His... Read more |
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Wendi C. Thomas Let’s Not Forget—Martin Luther King Jr. Was Preaching Economic Justice, Too “Martin Luther King Jr. Day is not only for celebration and remembrance, education and tribute, but above all a day of service,” wrote King’s widow, Coretta Scott King. In Atlanta, where King... Read more |
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DeShawn Taylor I’m an Abortion Provider in a Red State, and I Expect the Attacks on Reproductive Freedom to Intensify in Trump’s America If we take President Donald Trump at his word, his administration will try to implement policies that will be a sustained assault on the constitutional rights of all Americans, particularly its most... Read more |
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Chris Hedges Building the Institutions for Revolt Politics is a game of fear. Those who do not have the ability to make power elites afraid do not succeed. All of the movements that opened up the democratic space in America—the abolitionists, the... Read more |
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Elizabeth Warren The GOP’s Strategy for Obamacare? Repeal and Run. For eight years, Republicans in Congress have complained about health care in America, heaping most of the blame on President Obama. Meanwhile, they’ve hung out on the sidelines making doomsday... Read more |
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Bill Moyers John Lewis Is a True American Profile in Courage High from his gilded throne room in midtown Manhattan — like Zeus from Mt. Olympus — Donald Trump has been hurling tweeted spitballs at Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. He’s a man of “ no action ,” typed... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trump’s Plan to Neuter the White House Press Corps, and Neuter Our Democracy Tyrants don’t allow open questioning, and they hate the free press. They want total control. That’s why, according to three senior officials on the transition team, the incoming Trump administration... Read more |
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Duncan Green 8 Men Now Own the Same as the Poorest Half of the World It’s Davos this week, which means it’s time for Oxfam’s latest global ‘ killer fact ’ on extreme inequality. Since our first calculation in 2014 , these have helped get inequality onto the agenda of... Read more |