So why would Trump want to revive the failed policies of the past? The reasons range from the petty to the perverse. Trump’s hatred of Obama is apparent. From Obamacare to climate policy to Cuba, he seems intent on overturning whatever Obama did — no matter how great the cost to the American people.
Notes, quotes and things picked up on the run from end up coast-to-coast and all the stops in between and beyond.
The decision of House Republicans to torpedo the American Health Care Act, their own leadership’s plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, is a stunning defeat for President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan. It also rescues the 24 million Americans that were projected by the Congressional Budget Office to lose health care under the bill — particularly older, low-wage families and residents in rural areas. The defeat of the AHCA is as much a triumph of small-d democratic resistance as a failure of Trump and Ryan. The real test of leadership is how Trump reacts to
And now we have a tale of two cities once more.
Rev. Jesse Jackson continues to advocate for minority economic empowerment.
The final days of the Obama presidency are upon us. His popularity is rising with the economy, and with the increasingly stark contrasts to his successor. It is worth being clear about the legacy that he leaves behind.
President-elect Donald Trump protests that he isn’t really the racist, sexist, anti-immigrant Islamaphobe that his rhetorical excesses in the presidential campaign suggested he was.
America’s election system is a disgrace, as the 2016 presidential election once more demonstrates. This isn’t sour grapes.
Donald Trump, falling behind in the polls, with his campaign imploding around him, now says the election is “rigged.” He refuses to say whether he will accept the verdict of the voters.
The award recognizes Ms. Gill for her career-long work of advocating for social and economic change,
It reminds us that slavery ended barely more than 150 years ago, the span of two long lives
Now it is Milwaukee. Recently, a car with two African-American men was stopped for “suspicion.” The men fled, the policeman pursued, and the driver, reportedly armed, was shot and killed.
The president will use the occasion to revive attention on the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons
Even where there is consensus, there is no authoritative, independent voice able to challenge both Congress and the president when needed