Politics
The Trump smokescreen gets thicker and thicker
February 20, 2018As the late John Mitchell, former GOP President Richard Nixon’s attorney general, said near the end of Nixon’s first year in office: “Watch what we do, not what we say.”
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Trumpian threat to democracy raises stakes for 2018 elections
February 15, 2018The American people face a crisis of governance and threat to democracy unlike any in our history. The stakes couldn’t be higher in the outcome of the 2018 elections.
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Richard Falk speaks on Israel and the question of apartheid
February 9, 2018Falk insisted it is only correct to look at the Palestinians as a coherent people, wherever they live, and not provide tacit consent to the fragmentation both geographical and political to which Israel has subjected them.
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The gang that couldn’t (de)regulate straight
February 8, 2018Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Republican majorities to call a hearing to look into violations of the Administrative Procedures Act.
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Missouri unions follow scandals closing in on GOP Gov. Greitens
February 5, 2018Greitens, elected in 2016 on an extreme anti-worker platform, is enmeshed in scandals.
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