Saturday, December 21, 2024

Tag: President Joe Biden

Biden’s golden opportunity to reverse course on China

Improving relations with China could lower inflation, isolate Vladimir Putin, and accelerate the transition to a clean energy future.

Biden refuses to mention the worsening dangers of nuclear war. Media...

“I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.”

Biden—the grinder president—gets whacked for not enough drama, charisma, or entertainment

One need not like Biden to appreciate that more self-absorbed Entertainers-in-chief represent a future of dangerously inept, indeed immoral chief executives.

SOTU recap: A few State of the Union promises I hope...

If these State of the Union promises come true, the country will take some practical steps forward to a brighter future.

Does stirring Biden rhetoric impede the new, improved, fascist mania—or reform...

Until Democrats wake up that their future and the country’s both depend on urgently slamming shut anti-democratic doors and empowering true majority rule, fine rhetoric falls flat.

Biden’s Summit for Democracy, a good idea hurt by compromise and...

It’s progress that needs to be defended.

Ten contradictions that plague Biden’s Democracy Summit

Just as the people of Venezuela have not elected or appointed Juan Guaidó as their president, the people of the world have not elected or appointed the United States as the president or leader of all Earthlings.

Biden signs executive order for a carbon-neutral federal government by 2050

The Biden administration’s efforts to reduce the federal government’s carbon emissions could have a ripple effect across the economy.

Biden continues drilling boom on public lands despite campaign pledge, analysis...

“The reality is that in the battle between the oil industry and Biden, the industry is winning.”

Does Biden’s lower approval rating mean Democrats should ‘move to the...

That “significant parts of the electorate are feeling leery of a sharp leftward push in the party.”

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Teamsters launch largest strike against Amazon in US history to demand fair wages and...

Amazon workers launch historic nationwide strike, demanding better wages, safer conditions, and union recognition from the $2 trillion corporation.

Pregnant woman in labor cited under Kentucky anti-homelessness law

Pregnant homeless woman in labor ticketed under Kentucky’s anti-camping law, sparking national outrage over the criminalization of homelessness.

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.