The editorial board of The New York Times published a piece Monday under the headline, “The Cost of Barack Obama’s Speech.” The piece discusses the $400,000 price tag on the former president’s scheduled speaking engagement on Wall Street. Beginning with a quote by Obama himself on how fundraising disconnected him from the people he began […]
Obama the Hamiltonian by Matt Stoller…
When former President Barack Obama decided to take $400,000 from a Wall Street investment bank for the first paid speech of his post-presidential career, he accelerated an important debate within the political establishment. As a policy leader, Obama’s Presidency was largely defined by the financial crisis. The government’s response, organized first by Bush and then […]
Why Do Democrats Feel Sorry for Hillary Clinton? by Andrew Sullivan…
Every day, the incoherence deepens: He’s going to cover “everyone,” but he’s going to push 24 million people off their health insurance. He’s going to wipe out the debt, but his tax cuts and spending spree will add trillions to it. He’s never going to intervene in Syria, but he just did. He’s going to […]
Dereliction of Duty, Redux by Scott Ritter (Outstanding Read)…
During the night of April 6, Trump ordered a pair of U.S. Navy destroyers operating in the eastern Mediterranean Sea to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against targets located in and around the Syrian air base of Shayrat. The cruise missile attack was in response to allegations of a chemical weapons attack by a Syrian […]
Don’t Forget Your Base: Dear President Trump…
Respectfully, what the fuck are you doing? TheShadowBrokers voted for you. TheShadowBrokers supports you. TheShadowBrokers is losing faith in you. Mr. Trump helping theshadowbrokers, helping you. Is appearing you are abandoning “your base”, “the movement”, and the peoples who getting you elected….
Congressman Introduces Bill Repealing Obamacare with a Single Line…
Here’s the effective text of the bill in its entirety: Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted…
Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All Plan…
Why All the Alarm over Trump Ties to Russia, American Millennial’s Ask…
Amid an avalanche of news raising alarm about Russian meddling in the U.S. election and ties between President Donald Trump’s administration and Moscow, many younger voters are questioning how big a threat the former Cold War foe really is. “Russia is just not the same danger they were to us 40 years ago,” said Sara […]
Bush, Blair and Clinton Redemption Tour Signals Centrism Is Gasping Its Last Breath…
Former President George W. Bush has been widely praised by the mainstream media for his criticism of President Donald Trump in several recent interviews, providing Bush with reconciliation of his disastrous presidency. In a desperate attempt to revive the political power of moderates, the Democratic establishment is using opposition against Trump to claim political…
The Deep State’s Hatred of Trump Is Not the Same as Yours…
Last October, three weeks before the presidential election, I wrote an essay for left progressives titled “The Ruling Class’s Hatred of Trump is Different Than Yours.” People on the left, I noted, loathed the white-nationalist, quasi-fascist Donald Trump because of his sexism, racism, nativism, authoritarianism, militarism, “law and order” police-state-ism, anti-intellectualism…
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