‘Naked, Unapologetic and Insidious’ Corruption: Democrats Respond to Trump’s Official Statement on Impeachment Charges
Responding to President Donald Trump’s official answer to the impeachment charges against him now facing trial in the U.S. Senate, the Democratic House Managers assigned to prosecute the case rejected Sunday morning the president’s claim his conduct was “perfect” by saying there is “a different word for it: impeachable.” Read More.
House Democrats Present Their Argument for Removing President Trump
On Saturday, House Democrats made their formal case to the Senate that President Donald Trump should be removed from office for withholding military aid as a ploy to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate his political opponent. In the 111-page brief, impeachment managers argued that their evidence showed Trump was guilty of both abuse of power […]
From Impeachment Appeasement to Climate Crisis Erasure
The White House justified its killing of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani by claiming he’d been preparing “imminent” attacks against American diplomats in the region. But officials in the Trump administration couldn’t define what comprised these threats—Mike Pompeo’s vague assurances on Fox News suggests Suleimani did not presently threaten American lives. Mother Jones covers reports from critics suggesting […]
Trump Moves to Limit Environmental Reviews, Erase Climate Change from NEPA Considerations
President Donald Trump on Thursday proposed sharply limiting environmental reviews of pipelines and other major federally permitted infrastructure projects, a move that would sweep away a hurdle slowing his agenda for unfettered fossil fuel development. The new guidance would curb federal agencies from considering climate impacts by specifying that agencies are only required to analyze […]
Inequality in the Trump Era
In the spring of 2014, I published a series of essays at Dissent under the banner of “Our Inequality.” The overarching argument, following the work of a generation of institutional and labor economists, was that the dramatic growth in economic inequality since the 1970s was not some unfortunate symptom of globalization or technological change but was essentially […]
Trump administration rejects Center for Public Integrity request for transparency
The Trump administration has rejected the Center for Public Integrity’s request that the government immediately disclose key communications between the Pentagon and the White House about the president’s summertime interruption of military aid to Ukraine. The Justice Department instead promised to defend its censorship of those communications in future court proceedings that are part of Public Integrity’s ongoing […]
Court Upholds Block On Trump Administration’s Public Charge Immigration Rule
A New York federal appeals court on Wednesday (January 8) ruled to maintain a temporary block on implementing the Trump administration’s change to the Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds immigration policy, also known as the public charge rule. According to The Associated Press, the ruling was handed down by a three-judge panel of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. As […]
The top words of 2019
THE GENDER-NEUTRAL PRONOUN “THEY,” which has been exploding in usage and acceptance, is the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Decade and Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year. The ADS Word of the Year was “(my) pronouns,” an expression in which someone tells you how they want to be known. The end of every year brings retrospectives on language from […]
Tens of Thousands Join ‘Sack ScoMo’ Protests Against Government Climate Inaction as Bushfires Rage Across Australia
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in cities across Australia Friday to protests their government’s inaction on the global climate emergency as the country continues to battle catastrophic bushfires that have devoured millions of acres of land, destroyed hundreds of homes, and left over a billion animals and 27 people dead. Australia is only halfway through its historically hot, dry summer, […]
From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination
After Donald Trump’s election, both the New York Times and Washington Post saw huge jumps in subscribers, all hoping that the outlets would hold the president to account. Both papers tapped into this sentiment: In February 2017, the Post adopted the motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness” on its masthead; Times ads have used the slogan, “The truth is more important now than ever.” Trump has […]