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For decades, Republicans have postured as deficit hawks. Senator Rand Paul, in a marathon speech against his own party’s budget bill, asked how Republicans could decry deficits when…
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The president who has done more than any other to polarize this already divided nation delivered his first State of the Union speech last week. The partisan chasm, one of many rifts in…
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First, throw out of the country as many black, brown, Muslim, and Spanish-speaking people as possible. Then, prevent others from coming in, with walls and blanket bans barring all…
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It is fitting that the U.S. government shut down a year to the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump. The Trump administration and its Republican accomplices in Congress have been…
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Apologists for the president will cite studies that show everyone lies every day. Yes, but Trump’s lies are different: they are not common lies about things such as why you didn’t turn…
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The news in Michael Wolff’s new blockbuster book, ‘Fire and Fury,’ is that Trump’s own inner circle and his Republican enablers in Congress realize that Trump is an extremely dangerous…
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More than three months ago Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, laying waste to the island. The response of the Trump administration has been deplorable. The federal government…
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This was the year that all the old, discredited, long-buried political ideas, practices and groups sprang back to life and took center stage. The real zombies are running the show and…
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The 2018 World Inequality Report shows in rich and convincing detail why the new Trump-Republican tax law makes a bad situation worse. It will increase economic inequality significantly…
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Today’s Republican Party not only lacks a conscience regarding the human consequences of the kind of brutal social and economic injustice they champion. They also lack the courage to…
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