Trump has brought the full extent of the war machine out into the open. Let’s channel public anger into organizing.
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Trump Has Made the US War Machine a Spectacle – and It’s Spectacularly Unpopular Read Post »
Word of the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson’s death last week transported me back to the summer of 1987, when I was the editor of Mother Jones, and met him in person for the first time at the start of his second campaign for the presidency. One of his generation’s greatest orators, he blended Bible verses […]
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Jesse Jackson Told Me Why He Really Ran for President Read Post »
Trump refuses to take responsibility for a racist video posted to his Truth Social account targeting the Obamas.
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Amid Obama Video Controversy, 1 in 2 Voters View Trump as Racist Read Post »
The way to honor Jackson is to “intensify the struggle for racial and economic justice,” his campaign co-chair said.
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Jesse Jackson’s Legacy Spans from Civil Rights Movement to Anti-Apartheid Fight Read Post »
Late on Thursday evening, President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social that depicts former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. The post, which was online all of Friday morning, appears to have been removed from the president’s page. Toward the end of an unrelated video alleging interference in […]
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Trump Posts Video That Depicts Obamas as Apes Read Post »
Amid multiple national crises, President Donald Trump spent Thursday morning posting—not for the first time—about how his predecessor Barack Obama should be arrested, and how Georgia election workers should be prosecuted, in both cases citing unsubstantiated claims. Trump’s fixations on going after Obama and Georgia aren’t new, but they now come at a moment of […]
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Trump Is Still Posting About Arresting Obama and Prosecuting Election Workers Read Post »
About 2,100 people are on death row in America. Some have been there for decades, in part because executions have been on the decline in the US. But that’s changing. So far this year, 41 people have been executed, up from 25 last year, and six more executions are scheduled. Early in his second term, […]
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Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them. Read Post »
Where’s Obama, you ask? The better question may be, where’s Trump? Former President Barack Obama spent Saturday supporting Democratic candidates in three of the most consequential races of this week’s elections. President Donald Trump, on the other hand, spent the weekend partying and golfing at Mar-a-Lago—a reflection of what has been his uncharacteristically reserved approach […]
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Obama’s Stumping for Democrats. Trump’s at Mar-a-Lago. Read Post »
If you had to describe the last decade or so of political life in America, the list would likely include the following: The Black Lives Matter movement. The death of George Floyd. America’s first Black president. The rise of the MAGA movement. The election and reelection of Donald Trump. A resurgence of white nationalism. An […]
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America Had a Black President. Then Came the Whitelash. Read Post »
The changes came as senators have called for an investigation into Trump’s destruction of the White House’s East Wing.
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Trump Admin Alters White House Website to Include Alleged Dem Scandals Read Post »
On Wednesday, former President Barack Obama joined California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a livestream for volunteers in support of Proposition 50, the governor’s redistricting measure, and the sole question on the ballot in the November 4 special election. As I reported last week in a story on the almost unprecedented spending around the measure: Prop […]
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Obama: California’s Prop 50 Is “Critical” for Democracy Read Post »
Donald Trump has ignored UN rules about attacking other nations, but he is not the first US president to do so.
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As UN Turns 80, Trump Continues US Violation of Charter’s Limits on Use of Force Read Post »
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