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An Offer they Can’t Refuse: Trump’s “Mob Boss Style” on Display in London

July 15, 2018 By Juan Cole

Hundreds of thousands of Britons took to the streets to protest Trump’s visit on Friday, as he was ridiculed with a baby Trump blimp.

DNC to gut power of superdelegates as Democratic Elite protest

July 14, 2018 By Common Dreams

The plan to gut superdelegates plan is widely supported. Corporate lobbyists who “think their vote’s more important” are desperately trying to undermine it.

No Trump, Germany doesn’t Get 70% of its Energy From Putin; it gets 41% from Renewables

July 12, 2018 By Juan Cole

Trump just made the claim that Germany gets 70% of its energy from Russia. This assertion, like most things out of Trump’s mouth, is completely untrue.

Trump has made lying his defining feature

July 12, 2018 By John Young

Donald Trump supporters choose not to acknowledge his lies. After all, truth is immaterial in the Age of Him, the age of Trump.

What We Can Do About Trump’s Escalating Lies

July 10, 2018 By Robert Reich

As the political season heats up, Trump is ramping up his lies through his three amplifiers: Fox News, rallies, and Twitter.

Trump’s Art of the No Deal (revised and updated)

July 10, 2018 By Robert Reich

So far, Trump has made no deals at all, and the ones he thinks he’s made have unraveled. Trump promised to be America’s dealmaker in chief. . Art of the deal?

The Establishment is wrong. Midwesterners are Hungry for Democratic Socialism

July 10, 2018 By Common Dreams

Some members of the Democratic establishment argue that bold, left-wing platforms can’t win elections. They’re wrong. Democratic Socialism sells.

The Donald Trump of Ancient Greece

July 7, 2018 By Egberto Willies

Privileged and narcissistic, a man who considered truth to be subjective, who casually manipulated facts to suit his own ambitious ends, Trump.

Oh, yes, we are better than this — really. Really better?

July 7, 2018 By John Young

Time magazine asks, have matters like these come to define us as a nation? “The story we tell the world is the story we tell ourselves. Are we better?

Why Is Christian America Supporting Donald Trump?

July 7, 2018 By Egberto Willies

Support for the President is a sign of intellectual laziness in the evangelical community preferring to respond to cultural change by trying to reclaim a Christian world that is rapidly disappearing.