The late private equity billionaire has some trouble at the Pearly Gates.Â
Robert Kuttner
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Putin, Trump, and Cold War II
The Kremlin’s serial incursions demand a response to defend America. Is Trump even aware of them—or is he too busy being Putin’s enabler?
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How the Globalists Ceded the Field to Donald Trump
Unless the mainstream offers something better, he will be the voice of economic nationalism.
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Donald Trump’s Good Week
He wowed his base on the headlines, but don’t expect any breakthroughs on either Korea or China.
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Putin’s Acts of War and America’s Muddled Response
When Vladimir Putin decided to use front organizations to leak confidential emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign and deploy bots and troll farms to rev up domestic hate groups and divide progressive ones, this was nothing less than an act of war. More than a year later, U.S. intelligence agencies have warned that more is […]
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Mueller Corners Trump
But that’s only part of getting our democracy back. Devising a strategy to block Russian election-hacking and cyber-war using social media will be even harder.
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The Deficit Hawks Have It Wrong
The problem is not the deficit, but that Trump’s deficit finances the wrong things—billionaires rather than bridges, tunnels, and schools.
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The Democrats’ False Choice
This article originally appeared at The Huffington Post. Subscribe here. Should Democrats go all out to energize a “rising electorate” of women, blacks, Latinos, Asians, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and on-the-march young voters? Or should the Democrats go all out to rebuild their shattered reputation as the Party of Roosevelt that cares about the white working […]
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Trump, the Globalist Plutocrat
This article originally appeared at The Huffington Post. Subscribe here. In case there was still any doubt, Davos showed us who Donald Trump really is: a member of the globalist plutocracy. Strip the racism from his nationalist appeal and there is nothing there. It’s camouflage for his service to the global billionaire class from which […]
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Davos Man
We can only imagine what Donald Trump will say when he addresses the World Economic Forum at the elite ski resort.
