Last week’s shooting of two National Guard members by an Afghan gunman was horrific. But Trump’s out-sized reaction was worse, says Robert Reich. Trump wants to permanently pause migration from Third World Countries and deport legal immigrants born in countries the White House deems “high risk”. Fostering hate between Americans (almost all descended from immigrants themselves) is the only way he knows to stay in power. His Straight White Male Christian Nationalism requires i

Even among those who see themselves as MAGA and voted for Trump in 2024, only 55% remain largely loyal. Approval among Independents has fallen eight points to its lowest point in either term. A Gallup poll released yesterday shows his job approval rating overall at 36% with disapproval at 60%. Then there’s this nugget from Heather Cox Richardson yesterday. “On Wednesday, November 26, Andy East of the Indianapolis Daily Journal reported on Indiana state senator Greg Walker, a

“Don’t look now, but most world leaders are laughing at the idea that the United States is a reliable partner,” writes Dan Rather today. There’s the Ukrainian “peace plan” written by the Soviets and “negotiated” by billionaire Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, neither of whom have diplomatic or foreign policy experience. It’s a complete sell-out of that beleaguered country whose leaders had no seat at the table. There’s the Trump boycott of two inter

In yesterday’s piece, Paul Krugman writes about the lingering catastrophic effects of Elon Musk’s DOGE. According to one recent study, the shut-down of USAID caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children. After hundreds of staffers were summarily fired from the NNSA, the agency that protects America’s nuclear weapons, Musk and his team scrambled to hire them back after realizing what they’d done. Thousands of dedicated federal employees were pu