Campaigning for president, Donald Trump assured workers that he would fight for them. “You’re going to have the American Dream back,” he said at his campaign rallies. “We’re going to be in the golden age.” His spokesperson now boasts that under Trump, workers already enjoy “increased job opportunities, better wages, and more bargaining power.” Trump … Read more
In the 10 days following Trump’s introspective commentary, his immigration policies have gone from entirely awful to beyond monstrous, culminating with this holiday weekend’s move to deport roughly 600, mainly Indigenous, unaccompanied children back to Guatemala—a country from which they had fled violence, trafficking, family destruction, death squads, and myriad other causes that lead a young … Read more
January 9, 2025 If we can’t count on this country’s vaunted checks and balances to either check or balance the power of an absurdist president, where else can we look? Ad Policy US Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024, in … Read more