By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Anderson Cooper’s interview with Donald Trump on Tuesday evening had the advantage of allowing come-backs and close questioning. At one point Cooper pointed out to Trump that he sometimes behaved like a 5-year-old, as with his attacks on Heidi Cruz. At another, he wondered why Trump […]
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Day of the Demagogue: Trumpian Deportation Fantasies and American Realities
By Tanya Golash-Boza | Tomdispatch.com In 2006, when I first began researching deportations, George W. Bush was president and quietly building a deportation machine in the Department of Homeland Security. Outside of small activist circles, few Americans knew that deportations had been rising since 1996 due to legislation signed by President Bill Clinton. Nor could […]
John Legend to Trump & Son on Chicago Protests re: their Racism: ‘This isn’t Complicated’
TeleSur | – – The back and forth began over the rally that gathered more than 10,000 protesters in Chicago forcing Trump to cancel his electoral event. R&B singer John Legend, who regularly speaks out on mass incarceration and police brutality, defended the Chicago protesters that shut down Donald Trump’s rally after Donald Jr. complained about oversensitivity. He went on […]
In Dem Race, African-American women could be decisive on Super Tuesday
By Evelyn M. Simien | (The Conversation) | – – As the Democratic nominating contest speeds up, African-American voters – especially women – have some tough, and influential, choices to make . . . As someone who has been researching this topic for the last 15 years, I believe both candidates are attractive to African-American […]
Poll: Trump Barely Has Any Support Among Latinos
TeleSur | – – According to a new poll, more than 80 percent of all Latinos in the U.S. view Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump unfavorably. The popularity of United States Republican presidential Donald Trump, who is leading in the race to the nomination, has been tanking in recent months within the Latino community across […]
Trump must honor the Immigrant & Undocumented Veterans of American Foreign Wars
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump, the ultimate chickenhawk, pretends to be a big booster of veterans, but as far as I can tell he’s never done anything in particular for them. Worse, Trump has been deeply offensive toward a significant group of vets– immigrants and the undocumented. In 2009, […]
Black, Brown and Progressive: A New Voter Majority in the US?
By Sonali Kolhatkar | ( TeleSur With the US becoming more racially diverse, left-leaning people of color in alliance with their white counterparts means that there is a progressive voting majority right now. Electoral politics often grab far too much attention for far too little reward. Every four years progressives rally around who might be […]
Could a post-Scalia court restore Campaign Finance Sanity & pull back from Plutocracy?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – There is no guarantee that the successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia will be a liberal. But only if Cruz wins the presidency can we expect a nominee as hard right as Scalia. In all likelihood, the court has just shifted at least somewhat to […]
The Day Beyoncé Turned Black – SNL
Saturday Night Live | (Video satire) | – – “It’s the day white people never saw coming: when Beyoncé turned black.” Saturday Night Live: ” “The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” – SNL”
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