Trump pushes US closer to war Spencer Platt/Getty Images President Trump speaks to the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. From The Boston Globe By Jeffrey D. Sachs, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations on Tuesday moved the world closer to war. The speech was Hitlerian in tone and content, […]

Donald Trump was up before dawn this morning crowing like a demented rooster, hysterically announcing his greatness to the sun. While most of his audience still slept, he was busy re-tweeting an employee’s praise of his performance at the United Nations and the fawning replies that that praise received: “President Trump is reminiscent of the […]

The GOP’s last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill may be the worst one yet Republicans have until Sept. 30 to try passing Cassidy-Graham, the GOP’s last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill, in the Senate with only 50 votes under the chamber’s rules. By Michael Hiltzik, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18, 2017   The Republican effort to repeal the […]

I came to this country 41 years ago. Now I feel like I don’t belong here. White-nationalist demonstrators surrounded by counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12. (Steve Helber/Associated Press)       By Max Boot, September 5 at 7:32 PM Re-posted from The Washington Post Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council […]

It doesn’t matter if Donald Trump is “crazy” — what matters is whether he can be stopped Trump’s election has unleashed a deep streak of delusional denial in a large segment of U.S. society Excerpted from “Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump” by Allen Frances (William Morrow, 2017). Reprinted with Permission […]

One day we may ask ourselves—some are asking already—how Donald Trump rose to power. Beyond that, when did his power become so complete that there was no legal way to stop it? Here’s how that history might be written. “[Official] propaganda later built up a legend which represented [his] coming to power as the upsurge […]

  Paul Krugman: America has begun its slide into fascism The New York Times columnist sounds off on Trump’s Arpaio pardon   (Credit: AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) In this Feb. 4, 2009, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, left, orders approximately 200 convicted illegal immigrants handcuffed together and moved into a separate area […]

‘I don’t know why you wouldn’t be scared’: Former Vice President Walter Mondale sounds off on Trump and Trumpism MinnPost file photo by Craig Lassig Former Vice President Walter Mondale: “[Trump] has an appalling record for using lies or near lies to draw outrageous conclusions … We can’t accept that.” From MinnPost By Eric Black […]

What Donald Trump’s tweets reveal about his mental health   By John Gartner From Salon Excerpted with permission from “All I Ever Wanted to Know about Donald Trump I Learned From His Tweets” by John Gartner, PhD, and Rachel Montgomery. Copyright 2017, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. Available for purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and IndieBound. […]

Most Americans have never lived with government propaganda telling them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, only what it wants them to think. I know what it’s like because I lived in Moscow, and so does Boris Epshteyn who was born there. Epshteyn, formerly of the Trump campaign and now chief political analyst […]