Trump has thrown the Democrats a lifeline. Will they take it?
Steve Bannon
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Race, Racism, and the Democratic Race
Will the Democratic field speak to broad class interests—or act out Steve Bannon’s fantasy?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Le Pen, Salvini, and Europe’s Far Right Increase Numbers in European Parliament, as Bannon Stays Close at Hand
It wasn’t the right-wing blowout some feared, but the strengthened presence of nationalist and Euroskeptic parties still imperils the European project.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump and Bannon: Busting Up the World
Each in his own way, the president and his former White House strategist continue their global realignment project, tilting toward Putin.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
‘The Brink’: Inside Steve Bannon’s Plan to Ruin the World
After Breitbart, Brexit, and Trump, next up: smashing the European Union.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Republicans Are Hard at Work to Turn Staten Island Blue
The Trump faithful in the only GOP quadrant of New York City may go for an ex-con Steve Bannon guy in June’s Republican primary.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s Impotent Rage
The window for firing Rosenstein or Mueller, and getting away with it, has closed.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Steve Bannon and Katie Roiphe Are Very Worried. So Is Donald Trump
The #MeToo movement and the existential threat to patriarchy
Posted inTAP
If a liberal strategist or screenwriter had scripted the Bannon-Trump crack-up…
… it would be hard to improve on events now unfolding. Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury, is only a more detailed version of what the world knows all too well. Donald Trump is an undisciplined mess, unfit to govern. His cabinet knows all too well what a total idiot he is, and says so. […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bannon’s Breitbart Exit Changes Nothing
The people who bankrolled Bannon have the president’s ear and a ton of cash. The toxic force that propelled Trump’s victory lives on.
