A conservative-leaning economist argued in The Wall Street Journal on Monday that President Donald Trump’s trade policies are destroying America’s economy — and two liberal-leaning experts who spoke with AlterNet agreed with him.After mentioning that Trump refused to renew the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agr…
Trump has run out of cards to play in the midterm elections, which is why he’s now talking about the “communist menace.”He can’t talk about the economy, because prices continue to rise faster than wages, which means most Americans are getting poorer. He can’t talk about foreign policy, because his w…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has had a gradual falling out with President Donald Trump, motivated by everything from his belligerent rhetoric toward Europe to him falsely claiming that she had begged him for a photograph together. Now, according to an opinion piece by the editors at Newswee…
President Donald Trump posted 67 times on social media on the night of July 5th-July 6th — and an expert says it is because he is increasingly insecure about his future.“I mean, that’s one way to look at it,” political analyst David Rothkopf told The Daily Beast’s chief content and creative officer …
I will spare you the details of the rightwing reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold birthright citizenship. I will spare you because they are disgusting, especially on America’s 250th anniversary. What you need to know is that the mainstream of the Republican Party is no longe…
A federal judge in Ohio has just issued a major blow against the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies, citing statements from both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance as proof of racist intent. This is according to Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney, who on M…
President Donald Trump’s apparent efforts to delay releasing the $5.8 million civil judgment to E. Jean Carroll are being met with a warning by the journalist’s legal team, who suggest there could be a legal maneuver for Trump to employ to forgo paying the judgment in either of the two cases he lost…
After British soldiers fired into a crowd of protesters in Boston on March 5, 1770, that event was described as a “massacre” by famous Bostonians like Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. The Boston Massacre was among the events that paved the way for the American Revolution, and historian/author Serena Za…
It’s no secret that President Donald Trump has been difficult for other world leaders to deal with, but a new report from the Wall Street Journal reveals that their frustration with their American counterpart is more severe than has previously been known. In January, reports the Journal, European le…
All he did was call Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin a “monstrous human being” and federal agents showed up at his door. Syracuse.com reported on Monday that father of two David Streever filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against Mullin and six other officials, a…