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The Coronavirus Is the World’s Only Superpower
Trump’s America? Not so much. On Tuesday, the U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest challenge that the world has faced since…
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What’s the Best, or the Least, That We Can Expect from Trump?
“Modified aspirational” is the phrase that Donald Trump used on Sunday, in another of his train-wreck press briefings, to describe how his goal of reopening the…
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Why America Can’t Respond to the Current Crisis
Dr. Anthony S Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and just about the only official in the Trump administration trusted to…
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5 takeaways from the Democratic debate: Joe Biden promises a woman VP
The two candidates offered contrasting visions on handling the coronavirus and clashed over their records. Underdog Bernie Sanders came to fight and front-runner Joe Biden promised…
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American Horror, Starring Donald Trump
The coronavirus pandemic is spiraling out of control, largely because of the president himself. I think I echo many Americans, and people of the world in…
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Why President Trump’s NATO Enlargement Plans Will Not Have European Support
After a barrage of criticism by President Trump regarding the functioning of the NATO alliance, the American leader now wants to enlarge the transatlantic alliance to…
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What Bernie Sanders Means for America
Whatever happens from here, Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist, has just won the first three contests for the Democratic nomination for president. What has already happened…
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How President Pence Would Blow Up 2020
If Trump were removed from office, the Democratic race would be turned upside down. If the Senate were to remove President Donald Trump from office—which could…
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“He’s No Mr. Nice Guy”: Impeachment Comes for Trump
In the end, a vote in the House of Representatives, on Thursday, to move ahead with public impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump was probably as inevitable…
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Sorry, Mr. President, the House is giving you far more due process than the Constitution requires
President Trump and his supporters continue to complain that the House of Representatives is denying him due process. But in fact, every part of the inquiry…
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Trump’s Four Horsemen
The president is unleashing autocrats to create a Middle East apocalypse. Texas tornadoes are potentially caused by the “flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil,” according…
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Is War on the Ballot in the 2020 Elections?
We complain that democracy is under assault from Donald Trump, but he’s just a cog in a much larger worldwide machine that is tearing down democratic…