The Guardian view, Editorial Donald Trump’s presidency has been a horror show that is ending with a pandemic that is out of control, an economic recession and deepening political polarisation. Mr Trump is the author of this disastrous denouement. He… Continue Reading
By Thomas Neuburger* – DownWithTyranny! I’m working on a book-length project that includes a look at our soon-to-be post-Trump world. These are preliminary notes for that part of the project. 1. The World Without Trump won’t be a world without… Continue Reading
By Charis McGowan* – The Guardian A plebiscite called in response to street protests in 2019 sees 78% of people back a new charter to replace one imposed by military dictator Chile has voted overwhelmingly in favor of rewriting the country’s… Continue Reading
Jill Filipovic, Art Cullen, Lloyd Green and Malaika Jabali (* ) – The Guardian Trump offered little vision and barely any policy, while Biden was solid. The president needed a win, and he didn’t get it Fri 23 Oct 2020… Continue Reading
By Charles H. Clavey* -Boston Review The Frankfurt School on the appeal of authoritarianism—and how to counteract it. A number of recent books have put the methods of the social sciences in the service of understanding Trump, his movement, and… Continue Reading
By Jennifer Senior* – The New York Times ——————————- We reproduce below an analysis of The New York Times, from November 2016, after the election of Donald Trump, which we have recovered because he lucidly designs our time. Kind regards,… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon stepped into the political and social chaos wrought by the Johnson administration and compounded it substantially. Hence, when I visited Europe during the late Nixon years, all of… Continue Reading
By Peter Carbonara and Scott Reeves – Newsweek With two weeks to go before the election, the nation’s financial health is top of mind for Americans. According to a recent Gallup poll, nearly nine out of 10 registered voters say… Continue Reading
The Ecconomist An international comparison IN HIS NEW book Casey Mulligan offers an intriguing explanation for why President Donald Trump makes outlandish economic claims. Mr Trump knows he is hyperbolising when he says that America has enjoyed “the greatest economy… Continue Reading
By Julian Borger* – The Guardian The world is anxiously watching the election, with the candidates far apart on issues such as the climate crisis and nuclear weapons Foreign policy barely gets a mention in this US election, but for… Continue Reading
By David H. Freedman – Newsweek The first three “nodes” of the conspiracy-theory network known as QAnon arose in 2018 in the persons of founders Tracy Diaz, Paul Furber and Coleman Rogers. They had figured out how to profit from promoting… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* The US is a hopelessly divided, and dysfunctional country Let’s take a look at the American elections which at this moment are important not only for the United States but also for the entire world. The American… Continue Reading
By Jill Filipovic* – The Guardian As a black woman on the national stage, she knew she had to walk a thread-thin line. She did so perfectly There was no real contest in the vice-presidential debate between Kamala Harris and… Continue Reading
By John Cassidy* – The New Yorker As the reverberations from Tuesday night’s shambolic Presidential debate echoed around Washington on Wednesday, Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, the sole Black Republican in the upper house of Congress, called on President Donald Trump to correct… Continue Reading
The Guardian Donald Trump set the tone for a brawl that offered a bleak picture of American democracy Lloyd Green, Derecka Purnell, Geoffrey Kabaservice and Art Cullen Geoffrey Kabaservice*: ‘There were no winners’ As this annus horribilis grinds toward its… Continue Reading
By Ana de Liz – Newsweek The co-author of the business advice book The Art of The Deal said President Donald Trump has committed one of the greatest tax frauds in IRS history, after The New York Times revealed that the president paid just $750… Continue Reading
By Daniel Carpenter* – Boston Review U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other In 2004 Muriel Ponder joined the U.S. Postal Service as a mechanic; she… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Trump offers specific promises and doesn’t bother smoothing his rough edges. In contrast, Biden offers “decency” and other character traits without bold and concrete pledges The last four years have been deeply traumatizing… Continue Reading
By Marshall Auerback and James Carden (*) Independent Media Institute Trump’s rise has led to unity in the ranks opposing his foreign policy The emergence in recent weeks of a coalition of neocon Republicans and former national security officials who have thrown… Continue Reading
David Smith – The Guardian Trump portrayed Biden as a creature of the Washington swamp, beat the drum of law and order and said little about racial injustice Washington – You write him off at your peril. Donald Trump stood… Continue Reading
