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Delayed Reaction: Joe Biden Won't Be Short Sold Forever

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

In her iconic song "Big Yellow Taxi," an obvious lament about American presidents who have been underappreciated while in office only to finally be given their due with time's passage, famed presidential historian Joni Mitchell wondered, "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?" Professor Mitchell clearly ...Read more

Do You Want Donald Trump to Succeed or America?

From the Left / Froma Harrop /

Those 38 Republicans who frustrated Donald Trump's demand that he be freed from the inconvenience of a debt ceiling vote early in his term were truly impressive. These are guys with whom yours truly disagrees much of the time.

What Trump's smarter knee-jerk defenders really believe is a matter of speculation. Scott Jennings used to work for ...Read more

Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events -- and Beyond

From the Left / ACLU /

Sports stadiums around the country have begun using face recognition to identify ticket holders, threatening to normalize a uniquely powerful surveillance technology that has already been used for abusive purposes. Worse, companies involved are already planning big expansions, raising the specter of a world where our faces become not just our ...Read more

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We the People Will Prevail

From the Left / Robert B. Reich /

The holidays provide an apt time to pause and assess where we are.

You have every reason to be worried about what happens after Jan. 20. Many people could be harmed.

Yet I continue to have an abiding faith in the common sense and good-heartedness of most Americans, despite the outcome of the election.

Many traditional Democratic voters did ...Read more

Elon Takes on Washington, But Can He Take it Over?

From the Left / Clarence Page /

Watching the year-end budget fights in Congress as we await the second term of President-elect Donald Trump, I find myself wondering: Will this era be remembered as the time when Trump was president and Elon Musk ran the country?

Trump earned such nicknames as “Captain Chaos” and worse for his unpredictable, constantly changing and easily ...Read more

When Elon Speaks ...

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

Something very scary happened in Washington this week. The world's richest man flexed his political muscle.

And the House collapsed.

All in a day.

Republicans and Democrats had negotiated for months about a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown -- complicated negotiations to keep the government funded through mid-March including $110...Read more

Are Killers Insane?

From the Left / Ted Rall /

As is typically the case after a high-profile murder, people are speculating about suspect Luigi Mangione's state of mind when he allegedly killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Hilton hotel in Manhattan.

We have a likely (political) motive in the form of a handwritten statement Pennsylvania police say they found on Mangione ...Read more

The Bishop's Table: Louisville's Community Powerhouse for Police Reform

Louisville, Kentucky, got their Christmas present early this year. The Department of Justice, Louisville Metro Government and Louisville Metro Police Department have signed a Consent Decree, an agreement to enact significant, systemic reforms to policing in Louisville.

In 2020, the murder of Breonna Taylor sparked protests across the country ...Read more

A Santa by Any Other Name

From the Left / Marc Munroe Dion /

What I've got is an "LED Santa Blow Mold With Warm White Light & Light Skin."

He stands a little over 2 feet tall.

So, what is it I've got?

It's one of those plastic Santas you put in your front yard, hopefully just during the Christmas season. The rest of the year, he lives in your garage, next to the bin for recyclables, just across from ...Read more

The Media’s Disgraceful Surrender to Donald Trump

From the Left / Bill Press /

Despite the gloom and doom surrounding the results of November 5, it would be nice to end the year with a glimmer of hope: the certainty that at least one guardrail against a Trump dictatorship was still in place. Alas, that’s not the case.

Two other guardrails, the courts and the Congress, were already lost. The Roberts Supreme Court has ...Read more

The Herculean Effort to Keep Trump Happy

From the Left / Froma Harrop /

The older he gets, the bigger the baby. Donald Trump has turned the U.S. government into one giant pacifier to calm his fear of seeming less than all-powerful. Consider those billionaires now dropping bags of gold at his feet, concerned that he would use his presidential powers to hurt them.

Donald Winnicott, a prominent English pediatrician ...Read more

ABC News Caves to the Bully

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

Pitiful.

That's the best I can say about ABC's decision to settle the defamation suit that Donald Trump brought against ABC News because star anchor George Stephanopoulos said he had been held liable for "rape."

Trump's claim: he was not held civilly liable for "rape," but for "sexual assault."

In fact, the judge had already rejected Trump'...Read more

The Post Office: A Wonderful Establishment

From the Left / Jamie Stiehm /

There's one thing Donald Trump can't take away from me.

I'm ready for living in a reality where a knock on the door could take you and your rights away. I'm prepared for violent Jan. 6 offenders in prison to be pardoned on Trump's first day. I'm even braced for freedom of speech -- and the press -- to ebb toward being things of the past.

...Read more

Greed Is Immoral. Health Care Greed Is Abominable

From the Left / Jim Hightower /

America has endured a long panorama of corporate greed -- from the East India Trading Company to the Robber Barons, Gordon Gecko Wall Streeters to Elon Musk. But down at the bottom of raw greediness today, you'll find the insatiable profiteers of the private nursing home industry.

Of course, many providers deliver honest, truly caring service...Read more

Kash As King: A Hatchet Man Comes To Town

From the Left / Jeff Robbins /

It's in vogue since Donald Trump's election last month to suggest that using words like "autocrat" or "strongman," let alone "fascist," to describe the once and future president is bad form at best and terribly out of line at worst. The problem with this suggestion is what the president says and what he does; other than that, there's no ...Read more

What Are Daniel Penny's Politics?

From the Left / Froma Harrop /

Is Daniel Penny a Republican, a Democrat or something else? As of this writing, his political leanings remain a mystery. Republicans clearly want to adopt the white Marine veteran who strangled a threatening Black passenger on a New York City subway car. They may deny it, but the racial dynamics created a desired optic for their warm support. ...Read more

Trump's Remarks on Birthright Citizenship, Explained

From the Left / ACLU /

President-elect Donald Trump has said that he intends to issue an executive order to end birthright citizenship for millions of children. Trump's campaign website states that, to qualify as a citizen, any baby born after his executive order would need to have at least one parent who is a citizen or lawful permanent resident. Scholars across ...Read more

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How the DOGE billionaires plan to kill Medicaid

From the Left / Robert B. Reich /

I’ve shared with you the plans of Trump’s unelected multi-billionaires, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to undermine Social Security — the most popular and successful program in the federal government, into which you’ve paid your entire working life.

Today I want to share their plan to gut Medicaid.

Medicaid is less politically popular ...Read more

Kash Patel and His 'Bureau of Intimidation'

From the Left / Clarence Page /

When Merriam-Webster chose “polarization” as the word of the year for 2024, the timing was dramatic for many of us who make our living through words.

Defining the word as “division into two sharply distinct opposites; especially, a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society no longer range along a continuum ...Read more

A Broken System

From the Left / Susan Estrich /

What does it mean that an alleged murderer has become a folk hero, that literally millions of people in this country have taken his side -- in social media, at least, if not as potential jurors -- in a case of cold-blooded murder? What does it mean that the McDonald's employees who reported him have had to resort to police protection to deal ...Read more

 

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