Sunday, December 22, 2024

Tag: Barack Obama

Obama from the rearview mirror

The resistance to Trump needs to be combined with a call for a new direction that embraces bold reforms.

Examining Trump’s wiretap claim

It is the responsibility of the politician making a claim to provide information to support it. But Trump has failed to do so.

The problem isn’t Trump, it’s bigger

While we resist, we also need to promote a positive agenda of what we want to see.

Publish, punish, and pardon

Nine Things Obama Could Do Before Leaving Office to Reveal the Nature of the National Security State

What Obama’s Climate Legacy Tells Us About Executive Power

Incremental progress beats no progress. But the climate needs all hands, and all branches of government, on deck.

Groups Ask Clinton For “Unequivocal Statement” On Lame-Duck TPP Vote

“Your continued leadership is sadly necessary as President Obama refuses to abandon this unpopular deal.”

Obama’s Nomination Insurance for Plutocracy

Obama can call Garland moderate and Republicans can call him liberal, but on the most important question of 2016 he is neither.

Obama’s Kabuki Theater

Does the 17th-century Japanese art form sum up the White House's production of the Trans-Pacific Partnership? If we're talking about elaborate sets and costuming, rhythmic dialogue and stylized acting, then we would have to say so.

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Elon Musk for Speaker of the House? Republicans float billionaire amid spending bill fight

Republicans propose Elon Musk as Speaker of the House after his role in sinking a spending bill, raising unprecedented ethical and governance concerns.

Israeli soldiers enforce kill zone in Gaza, targeting civilians and leaving bodies to rot

Israeli forces implement open-fire policies in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, targeting civilians and leaving corpses uncollected as a warning to others.

Syria’s new fundamentalist government: Women ‘biologically’ unsuited to politics, universities to be segregated

The comments provoked a firestorm of protest among Syrian women and, well, non-fundamentalists.