Tag: Trump

Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?

It has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

Noam Chomsky on the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the Biden administration.

Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs—not by rural America.

The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old-fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.

Joe Biden positioned himself as the “return to normalcy” candidate. But normalcy is not something we can afford—we must actively resist it.

Unless we bolster its foundations, our enfeebled democracy won’t be able to solve any of the daunting problems Biden has singled out as priorities.

Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now. 

Tax policies like New Jersey’s new Millionaires Tax are essential—not only for an equitable recovery, but also for reining in pre-pandemic inequality.

West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking.

The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.

The Frankfurt School on the appeal of authoritarianism—and how to counteract it.

The simultaneous success of Trump and Brexit was no coincidence.

Some candidates who lose elections strengthen democracy, but others threaten the democratic system itself.

On the role government should play in times of crisis.

In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.

Despite claims to the contrary, the Trump administration wants regime change in Iran and is risking a full-scale war in order to get it.

Beneath Trump’s impeachment lurks a troubling complacency—among Democrats and Republicans alike—with the nature of U.S. imperial power.

In linking the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Trump invokes a fantasy of poetic justice—positioning himself as Rambo, the avenger of American humiliation abroad.

The barrage of attacks that followed Trump’s decision to reduce the U.S. military presence in Syria obscures the decades-long bankruptcy of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.

Trump’s secret to success is that he expresses his base’s deep sense of alienation and grievance—cultural and social far more than economic.

We need a more just conception of citizenship—one that abolishes the distinction between “natural” and naturalized citizens.