Clinton says she opposes Obama’s trade deal
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that she opposes President Barack Obama’s trade deal even though she pushed it as secretary of state. “As of today, I am not in favor of what I have learned...
View ArticleNo On TPP (Republican Party)
(Source: Republican Party) TOP TAKEAWAYS Clinton just came out in opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement, which she played a leading role in negotiating as Secretary of State. As...
View ArticleClinton Flip-Flops against TPP as First Dem Debate Looms
Hillary Clinton announced her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal on Wednesday, breaking with her former boss President Obama and her own prior views on the subject in a move...
View ArticleHillary Clinton comes out against TPP trade deal
(CNN)Hillary Clinton came out against the Trans Pacific Partnership in an interview Wednesday, breaking with President Barack Obama and his administration, which has forcefully promoted the deal....
View ArticleClinton Tries To Rewrite History, Removes Support For TPP From "Hard Choices"...
(Source: Republican Party) Two Years Ago Today, Clinton's Memoir Of Her Time At The State Department Hard Choices Was Released. 'Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is about to be a grandmother -...
View ArticleHappy Birthday NAFTA!!!! (Republican Party)
(Source: Republican Party) TOP TAKEAWAYS Today, marks the anniversary of Bill Clinton signing NAFTA, a trade agreement Hillary Clinton has both supported and opposed depending on her audience and...
View ArticleCurrent Illinois Membership List (AMTA Illinois Chapter)
(Source: AMTA Illinois Chapter) Jody Abrahams, Kristen Abramowicz, Charles Abramson, Jaclyn Ackerman, Kristy Acosta, Bertha Acosta-Barbarawi, Ila Adam, Candice Adams, Joy Adams, Linda Adams, Nicole...
View ArticleThe Donald Can Happen Here: Trumpenstein’s Neo-Weimar Creators
/ What are we to make of the arch-authoritarian, white-nationalist Donald Trump phenomenon? We should not fool ourselves about its dangerous nature. As the New York Times opinion writer Roger Cohen...
View ArticleThe ultimate reading list for understanding Donald Trump
A guide to the vast story landfill about the presumptive Republican nominee. Table of contents I. Vintage Trump: real estate mogul, '80s and '90s tabloid superstar II. Trump, 2016, and the politics of...
View ArticleHistory Lessons: “Ultra-Radical” Reflections on Hillary, Bernie and U.S....
No Surprise In a arguing that nominal socialist Bernie Sanders’ majority support among Democratic voters below the age of 50 shows that the United States is entering a new progressive...
View ArticleSalon: Dems Have a New Frontrunner (Tea Party Inc)
(Source: Tea Party Inc) Salon: Dems Have a New Frontrunner - Tea Party News Our mission is to bring awareness to any issue which challenges the security, sovereignty or domestic tranquility of our...
View ArticleDaniel Ellsberg: The Rolling Stone Interview
Daniel Ellsberg was perhaps the first highly placed official (at one time the deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense) to have ever left the inner government and then reveal, with top-secret documents,...
View ArticleHillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders finally face off
Washington (CNN)The shadow boxing that Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have played at for months -- they've barely mentioned each other on the campaign trail -- will give way to more direct jabs...
View ArticleDonald Trump's Conflicts of Interest: a Crib Sheet
President Donald Trump still has not taken the necessary steps to distance himself from his businesses while in office. In accordance with a plan that he and one of his lawyers, Sheri Dillon, laid out...
View ArticleTrump's Interests vs. America's, European Union Edition
On the European leg of his first foreign trip, President Donald Trump elucidated the relationship between his business and his presidency, although in a way that only further complicates the...
View ArticleHere's what will actually happen if Trump withdraws from NAFTA. It's not pretty.
Donald Trump plans to bring down the hammer on trade from the first day he enters the White House. According to a memo drafted by the president-elect’s transition team and obtained by CNN Tuesday,...
View ArticleObama pushes trade in Asia, but has 2016 killed the TPP?
It was their last, best chance at a big, bipartisan deal: President Barack Obama and congressional Republican leaders all agreed on free trade. Just a little more than a year ago, that philosophical...
View ArticleInside the Democrats' Plan to Fight Trump
Congressman Gerry Connolly, a five-term Democrat who represents northern Virginia, marched into his office on Capitol Hill and assembled his staff for an impromptu meeting. "I'm going to the airport,"...
View ArticleBorder adjustment back on the brain
With help from Doug Palmer and Bernie Becker BORDER ADJUSTMENT BACK ON THE BRAIN: The House Ways and Means Committee is set to reignite the debate surrounding the border adjustment tax this morning...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Comes Out Against TPP
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Wednesday, breaking with President Barack Obama on the 12-nation trade deal that is set to become a key part of his legacy....
View ArticleThe Life of Fidel Castro: A Marxist Appreciation
Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn’t know where north or south is. If you don’t eventually come to truly understand the history of the class...
View ArticleTrump’s First 100 Days: What Mattered, And What Didn’t
Facebook Twitter Google + Email Comment Print The indelible takeaway from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was his unrelenting assault on political norms, the countless things he said and did that...
View ArticleSpringfield of Dreams: 150 Best 'Simpsons' Episodes
When FXX announced a complete Simpsons marathon — as in airing all 552 episodes consecutively, from August 21st through Labor Day — there was much rejoicing among those of us who have spent nearly as...
View ArticleA Debasing Spectacle: Behind and Beyond the Latest Quadrennial Carnival
I spoke last April at San Diego State University about what two clever Left political scientists there rightly called “the debasing spectacle” of the 2016 presidential election. I was asked to address...
View ArticleParty of Two
Joe Biden wouldn’t take the hint, and Barack Obama wouldn’t take “yes” for an answer. It was the fall of 2015, Donald Trump was rocketing up in the polls, Hillary Clinton was already wilting, and there...
View ArticleHillary Vs. Clinton (Republican Party)
(Source: Republican Party) The Associated Press Headline: 'Trade Deal, Keystone Open Clinton To Flip-Flop Charges' (Ken Thomas and Lisa Lerer, 'Trade Deal, Keystone Open Clinton To Flip-Flop Charges,'...
View ArticleTrumpâs Interests vs. Americaâs, Vancouver Edition
As the first (and, so far, only) Trump-branded property to open since the election, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver has prompted significant scrutiny. When it opened just five days...
View ArticleTrumpâs Interests vs. Americaâs, Secret Service Edition
President Donald Trump’s decision to retain ownership of his business while in office means that he can profit from government entities that are obligated to patronize his properties. For the Secret...
View ArticleThe Perfect Recipe to Create a Trump Voter
Click here for reuse options! The decline of the white working class and the rise of the Tea Party and Donald Trump. Five years ago, the sociologist Arlie Hochschild set out to better understand what...
View ArticleThe Roots of Trump and the Tea Party: The Hidden Injuries of Class, Race and...
Click here for reuse options! The decline of the white working class is a key part of the story. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right By Arlie Russell Hochschild New...
View ArticleDonald Trump: If US intelligence released dossier it would be a 'tremendous...
Donald Trump has suggested US intelligence agencies may be responsible for releasing a dossier containing allegations that Russia holds compromising information about him. At his first press conference...
View ArticleDonald Trump press conference: Watch US president-elect speak live from New York
Donald Trump will give his first formal press conference since winning the US election on Wednesday. The news conference, scheduled to kick off at 4pm UK time at Trump Tower in New York, had been...
View ArticleWarren Endorses The Rigged System (Republican Party)
(Source: Republican Party) TOP TAKEAWAYS With her headline speech at the Democrat National Convention, Elizabeth Warren now wholeheartedly embraces a candidate who represents the same Wall Street...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View ArticleHillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders: The Good Fight
Hillary Clinton's Super Tuesday speech, delivered before a gathering of supporters in Miami, was a more polished version of a speech I'd heard her give three days earlier in Columbia, South Carolina....
View ArticleThe 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet
There are three months until Election Day, and anti-Trump Republicans finally have their man—even if they’ve never heard of him. On August 8, Evan McMullin announced he is running as an independent for...
View ArticleWarren: A Liberal Dream, A Clinton Nightmare (Republican Party)
(Source: Republican Party) TOP TAKEAWAYS Today, Clinton campaigns with Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Senator pushed by liberals as their 'dream vice presidential pick.' Warren has been at odds...
View ArticleA Cheat Sheet
Well, this is crazy. Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee—even GOP Chair Reince Priebus says so—and it’s hard to overstate what a bizarre conclusion that is. The litany of reasons is...
View Article10 Crucial Decisions That Reshaped America
Facebook Twitter Google + Email Comment Print Brand is the be-all-end-all of Donald Trump. And the core of Trump’s brand is that squinty, jut-jowled, unreflective scowl, the Dirty Harry stare he...
View Article100 days of Donald Trump
In April, a few weeks before Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, he stood on a stage in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and made a bold prediction. “At some point, I'm going to be so...
View Article138 things Trump did this year while you weren't looking
Facebook Twitter Google + Email Print In Donald Trump’s first act as president, he signed a high-profile executive order intended to dismantle Obamacare, instructing federal agencies to take any...
View ArticleTrump’s Deadly Legacy: The First Six Months, Timeline of US Policy Changes,...
Note: With few exceptions, sources are from mainstream media. January 20, 2017 Trump Inauguration (Friday): – Trump signs first executive action canceling Obama’s FHA mortgage rate premium cuts...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
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