LOADING ERROR LOADING President Donald Trump began his second presidential term with an autocratic offensive aimed at consolidating power in his hands while bending public and private institutions to ...
12.01.2025 yahoo.com , huffpost.com and 3 sites
War criminals. We begin today with Heather Cox Richardson writing for her “Letters from an American” Substack about the seeming avalanche of challenges to the Trump regime from the Republican Party. I...
11.29.2025 bostonglobe.com , nytimes.com and 5 sites
Still the great shot of the felon, even though he's stumbling more, at least figuratively, every day In the last month, we have seen significant weakening of the felon and his enablers. A brief summar...
12.03.2025 Dailykos.com and 5 sitesWhen President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act of 1935 and the U. S. Social Security Administration (SSA) was created, the program had its share of critics on the rig...
11.30.2025 Msn.com and 6 sites
I’m not particularly brilliant. It’s just a simple reading of history that displays what works and what does not. In particular, proven decades ago, the economy operates from the demand side, not the supply side, the oligarch’s side. There were surprisingly few voices predicting the depth of the recession we are going to see. It may look in hindsight like there were many voices like mine, but in fact there were very few. Use your google machine to check that out. Meanwhile, here are the receipts...
12.01.2025 Dailykos.com and 4 sites
This past Friday, Trump announced he will pardon the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who in March 2024 was convicted by a U. S. jury and sentenced to 45 years in prison for consp...
12.02.2025 Dailykos.com and 4 sites
Putting foxes in charge of the hen house is a recipe for economic disaster. Economist Paul Krugman and I are very worried. He titled a recent Substack post, “Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008, ” t...
12.04.2025 Dailykos.com and 3 sites
The Wall Street meltdown of September 2008 gave the United States its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Both then-President George W. Bush and his successor, Barack Obama...
11.28.2025 Rawstory.com and 3 sitesThe National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, has “crossed the line” when defending Donald Trump’s economic policies, a Nobel Prize winner has said. Paul Krugman suggested that comments made by the NE...
12.04.2025 Dnyuz.com and 2 sites
During Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign — his third as a Republican and fourth overall — he focused heavily on inflation, which he blamed on then-President Joe Biden and then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Liberal economist and former New Yor...
11.28.2025 Alternet.org and 1 sites