Tag - Donald Trump

Understanding Fascism

Donald Trump's electoral victory has bought with it a heightened level of vitriol and name-calling. Democrats, and even a few Republicans, have issued blanket accusations against Trump, his cabinet, and anyone who...

How to Stop Donald Trump

Political tensions have been running high ever since Donald Trump became president just a few weeks ago. Upon entering the Oval Office, Trump immediately began flexing his executive muscles by issuing several stern and...

The United States of Anger

They say that time heals all wounds. This seems to be especially true when the original trauma is experienced second-hand. Consider the terrorist attacks on the United States back in September 2001. Like the Kennedy...

The Politics of No Meaning

There is safety in numbers, we are told. And so, on the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as America's forty-fifth president, millions of American women marched in safe solidarity. The crowd estimates in...

The Wrong Way to Identify Tyranny

In a recent article on “The 15 Warning Signs of Impending Tyranny", Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, documented the key identifiers of tyrants who are about to assume power and...

Is America a Racist Nation?

The inauguration of Barack Obama eight years ago, trumpeted as the final proof that our slave-embracing past had been put behind us, did not usher in a new era of racial harmony. Every month, it seems, the news media is...