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In the wake of Donald Trump’s first week as President, the Democrats opposing him are reported to be stunned, paralyzed, and intimidated. According to Peter Baker of the New York Times (Jan. 26, 2025), they have been shocked and rendered passive by “norm-shattering, democracy-defying assertions of personal power that defy the courts, the Congress, and More

The old men and women in Stacy Torres’s new book, At Home in the Big City: Growing Old in Urban America, (UC Press; $29.95), are not like the original members of the Grey Panthers, the organization founded by Maggie Kuhn in 1970, when Black Panthers defied racism and injustice and created role models for both the More

When I was a “preteen,” maybe ten or eleven years old, I remember watching a sci-fi program on TV (maybe a Flash Gordon episode). It was about a society where criminality had become the legal norm. It was a land where the “strongest” prevailed simply because they could. For instance, theft was legal because those More

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos to see how Europe was handling its own immigrants and refugees. Within a day, I met two Syrians, Eyad Awwadawnan and Hasan Majnan, More

Convicted felon Donald Trump has declared war on Americans. In less than two weeks, he has become the dictator, a role he celebrated in his campaign. He is using illegal executive orders as poisoned spears against just about every program the federal government administers to advance the health, safety, and economic well-being of all Americans. More

With the end of January consigning Christmas decorations to cheerful memory, even if northern blizzards and hot-button issues stoked by the incoming Trump administration are less conducive to jollity, is it “time to cut the green tape”?  Lauren Smith thinks that such eco-bureaucracy is “Why Britain can’t build anything” (spiked, January 29). Solar power is not in More

The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the US Air Force, Department of Defense or the US Government. Have you ever noticed that the military tends to surround itself with stories of grandeur, daring missions, and larger-than-life heroes? From young ages, we’re taught to More

Donald Trump is the world’s leading expert in getting things wrong and one thing he gets wrong bigly is the value of the U.S. domestic market. Trump seems to believe that our domestic market is incredibly valuable to the rest of the world and that access to it should allow him to extort large concessions More

It is on. Elon is burrowing into a hostile takeover of the US government, regulations, and economy. He is clearly quite used to getting everything he wants by any devious means or blatant powerplay. Donald Trump is turning out to be just a minor buffoon at Elon’s service, a pliable, if blustering, Muskateer. Elon bought More

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