Republican Party

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I may not have a law degree, but I do know a great deal from personal experience (as a pioneering blogger) and wide reading about the internet. So the passage about presidential tweets in the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity in Trump v. United States caught my eye. The […]

Donald Trump

Trump called Biden a “Weak Palestinian:” is the P-word the new N-Word?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – During CNN’s sh*tshow — I mean, debate — Trump at one point insisted that Biden let the Israelis “go” at the Palestinians: You got to ask him, as far as Israel and Hamas, Israel is the one that wants to go. He said the only one who wants to keep […]

Donald Trump

An Election in Danger? The Fragile State of American Democracy

Tomdispatch

By Julian Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Officials and election experts are now struggling in a big-time way. How, they wonder, can they effectively address mounting threats — of violence, election denialism, foreign influence, and voter discrimination? Do they run the risk of alarming the public to the point of reducing […]

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Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – At the dawn of Nazi Germany a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Reichstag president Hermann Göring invited two dozen of Germany’s wealthiest and most influential bankers and industrialists to his home to solicit funds for the upcoming election, according to historian David de Jong in […]

Democratic Party

Not your Father’s Israel: Extremist Israeli PM Netanyahu is Playing Biden and Blinken for Fools

H. Scott Prosterman

Though Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries signed onto inviting Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu to address Congress on July 24 in the “spirit of bi-partisanship,” many US and Israeli Jews loudly object. They plan a major demonstration in Washington to show up his address. The organization UnXeptable is organizing an effort to have […]

Featured

Far Right Supreme Court enables Mass Murder in Service to Republican Ideology

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – “How can you be so obtuse?” That question to the sadistic warden got Tim Robbins’ character, Andy, an extra 30 days in solitary confinement in Frank Darabont’s 1994 Stephen King vehicle, The Shawshank Redemption. Now I ask of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS), “How can you employ […]

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Trump or Biden on Israel?

Bob Dreyfuss

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, I attended a demonstration called by groups opposing the carnage in Gaza, where eight months of air, ground, and sea attacks by the Israeli Defense Forces have leveled entire quadrants of cities and killed more than 36,000 Palestinians. Many of the participants, justly outraged by the ongoing mass murder triggered […]

Climate Crisis

This Time, from Climate to Palestine to Trump 2.0, we must listen to our wise Cassandras

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com) – A few days ago, my partner and I went in search of packing tape. Our sojourn on an idyllic (if tick-infested) Cape Cod island was ending and it was time to ship some stuff home. We stopped at a little odds-and-ends shop and found ourselves in conversation with the woman behind the […]

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Trump Rhetoric after his Felony Conviction: Distract, Stoke Fear, Pave way for Strongman

The Conversation

By Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University | – (The Conversation) – After a jury convicted Donald Trump of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a politically damaging relationship, he responded by warning viewers of his post-verdict news conference: “If they can do this to me, they can do this to […]