A scene from a video depicting a fake President Trump massacring the news media and his critics that was shown at a conference for his supporters at Trump National Doral Miami last week.
A federal appeals court expressed skepticism Wednesday that President Donald Trump can block a subpoena from New York state prosecutors for his tax returns, in a case that all sides agree is likely headed toward the Supreme Court for an election-year showdown.
President Trump leaving the United Nations Climate Change Action Summit last month.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing the formal withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to three people briefed on the matter, a long expected move that nevertheless remains a powerful signal to the world.
The official action sets in motion a withdrawal that still would take a year to complete under the rules of the accord. Abandoning the landmark 2015 agreement in which nearly 200 nations vowed to reduce planet warming emissions would fulfill one of President Trump’s key campaign promises while placing the world’s largest economy at odds with the rest of the globe on a top international policy priority.
“I withdrew the United States from the terrible, one-sided climate accord, was a total disaster for our country,” he told a crowd of cheering men and women in hard hats on Wednesday at a natural gas conference in […]
Author of “The Cult of Trump” Steven Hassan on our president’s similarities to famous cult leaders — and how to break the grip
A new Gallup poll finds that at least 50 percent of the American people want Donald Trump to be impeached and removed from office. That’s three times higher than the percentage of Americans who supported impeaching Richard Nixon during the early stages of the impeachment process. Trump could become the first American president to run for re-election after being impeached in the House of Representatives.
This article first appeared in Salon.
On the surface, at least, it would seem that Donald Trump’s continual torrent of lawbreaking, his disrespect for the Constitution and democracy, his corruption, racism, nativism, misogyny and overall debasement of human morality and human decency have finally reached a point where he will be held accountable by the Democrats in Congress and then at the polls in 2020.
But what of the 39 percent (or so) of Americans who continue to support Donald Trump? His popularity […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
In the way neoliberal advocates like Friedrich Hayek, Henry Simons, Jacob Viner, and Frank Knight, or more recently David Stockman and Milton Friedman, define success: untrammeled free market, minimal government oversight, increased privatization, smaller government, America is a resounding success. The DOW is at levels never before seen; EPA, FDA and other regulatory agencies under the Trump administration have dramatically pulled back from corporate oversight; massive tax cuts have been implemented and the rich are so much richer. As President Trump keeps telling us, all is well. Except it isn’t.
The list of social outcomes measures supporting our unwellness is too long to include everything here. So let me give just a selection, with the understanding that it represents a much larger whole. It will, however, give you the flavor of what I mean. Let’s start with healthcare. According to the World Health Organization, “The U.S. health system spends a higher portion of its gross domestic product than any other country but ranks […]
Kristin Johnson at home in Houston with her son Elijah.
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HOUSTON — The baby’s lips were turning blue from lack of oxygen in the blood when his mother, Kristin Johnson, rushed him to an emergency room here last month. Only after he was admitted to intensive care with a respiratory virus did Ms. Johnson learn that he had been dropped from Medicaid coverage.
The 9-month-old, Elijah, had joined a growing number of children around the country with no health insurance, a trend that new Census Bureau data suggests is most pronounced in Texas and a handful of other states. Two of Elijah’s older siblings lost Medicaid coverage two years ago for reasons Ms. Johnson never understood, and she got so stymied trying to prove their eligibility that she gave up.
“I’ve been on this emotional roller coaster,” Ms. Johnson, 34, said of Elijah’s loss of coverage, an error that happened apparently because she didn’t respond quickly enough to a letter […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
