Tag: 9/11
As Stephen Colbert reminds us in the wake of fascist terror, hate is not what America stands for. And he finds the good amid the evil. But of course then there’s Trump, unavoidably. “Naturally in ...
Having debased himself so thoroughly during the 2016 presidential campaign, Rudolph Giuliani has fallen far in public esteem since his heyday as “America’s Mayor,” the unquestionable hero of 9/11. And now that he has returned ...
A report about the mood among Republican leaders facing the increasing probability of major Democratic gains in the 2018 midterm elections contains a disturbing comment attributed to President Donald Trump. Discussing electoral possibilities, the president ...
While most such groups had collapsed after 9/11, the law center noticed an explosion of so-called Patriot groups that began in 2009, the first year of Obama’s presidency, and reached a peak in 2012, when ...
When Congress returned home, Republicans got clobbered at town hall meetings. These scenes made me check up on our democracy's wellness. Bad news: The body politic's muscles got flabby in the last 16-17 years. Blood ...
The most pertinent of the three cases in terms of Trump administration priorities involves whether immigrants in custody for deportation proceedings have the right to a hearing to request their release when their cases are ...
The list of Wall Street banks, private equity firms, and hedge funds with extensive fundraising operations in Saudi Arabia reads like a "Who’s Who" of American business, including major firms from Goldman Sachs and Morgan ...
Fake news is the one thing Trump hasn’t claimed to have invented that he actually deserves at least partial credit for inventing. Trump puts out so much misinformation he is a fake news factory unto ...
Obama pledged in his 2008 presidential campaign to close the military prison, but his efforts have been blocked by mostly Republican opposition in Congress. The Democratic president has instead reduced the population there by transferring ...
Trump seemingly can’t, or chooses not to, distinguish fact from fiction, and he has a long history of adopting conspiracy theories and Tweeting about them.
Some of the criticism about the media is certainly deserved. Sometimes, news media are too timid. Too obsessed with ephemera. And, yes, biased.
Trump made scores of promises he could not possibly fulfill. The biggest was the same one fascist strongmen always offer: transcendent national renewal, built upon the cleansing of dangerous untermenschen from the body politic.
Like the 2001 terrorist attacks, the Donald Trump upset win threatens Americans' sense of safety and continuity. The difference is that the 9/11 tragedy forged national unity, whereas the Trump election exposed grave internal discord.
Chances are you haven’t thought about Guantanamo Bay - that American gulag - for a long time. Not everyone has the luxury of forgetting.
The top court agreed to hear an appeal by former senior Bush officials - including John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller - seeking to block a lawsuit filed by immigrants, mainly Muslims, detained after the Sept. ...
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