Government by state-sponsored vendetta looms
Election 2016
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Interregnum
Can Donald Trump govern the United States as he presided over The Apprentice? The president-elect brings his genius for cruelty and delight in humiliating competitors to the White House.
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Q&A: After 2016, Will the Electoral College be Abolished?
Electors poised to officially install Donald Trump as president face mounting pressure to “go rogue,” but Electoral College scholar Robert Alexander says such lobbying campaigns are becoming par for the course, and wholesale changes in the current system are not likely.
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Incoming EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s Other Target: Clean Water
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to protect clean water, but his selection of Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency tells a different story.
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Trump Taps Anti-Worker Fast-Food CEO for Labor Secretary
Andy Puzder, the CEO of a major fast-food company and sworn foe of raising the minimum wage, embodies the right’s anti-worker, trickle-down agenda.Â
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Counter Protests Swamp KKK Celebration in North Carolina
A Ku Klux Klan gathering this weekend both recalled North Carolina’s racially troubled history, and demonstrated the strength and diversity of the state’s civil rights movement today.
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How Donald Trump Is Turning the GOP into a Postmodernist Party
Faced with a leader who has no grasp on reality, GOP leaders are undermining the very idea of truth.Â
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The Romney Gambit
Mitt Romney’s willingness to consider serving in a Trump cabinet should come as no surprise.
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Trump’s Carrier Pigeons
The fear of Donald Trump’s wrath may have been the biggest factor prompting Carrier to drop plans to move its Indianapolis plant to Mexico. Had President Obama gone that route, Republicans would have assailed him for meddling in the free market.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Resisting Trumpism in Europe and the United States
Authoritarian democracy is on the march on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite alarming parallels, the U.S. remains better positioned to preserve and rebuild true democracy.
