Category: Donald Trump
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A Psychologist on How Members of the Press Can Stop Abuse Directed at Them by Trump.
The relationship between political power and the press is fundamentally adversarial by design, yet the modern White House briefing room has frequently devolved from a forum of accountability into an arena of spectacle and hostility. Under Donald Trump, the traditional friction between political figures and the fourth estate shifted from policy disputes to direct, targeted,…
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From Gumbo to Poutine: A Cajun’s Bid to Replace the US Ambassador to Canada
With enough gumbo and bourbon, you can right any relationship. Over 215,000 of our delightful Canadian neighbors have signed a petition calling for the current U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, to be declared persona non grata and expelled from the country (from Canada, not the U.S.) Now, when almost a quarter million of the…
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Donald Trump’s America Through the Lens of Desmond Tutu
When the world remembers Archbishop Desmond Tutu, it remembers a giggle that could disarm tyrants, a dance that could lift the spirits of the brokenhearted, and a moral clarity that cut through the thickest fogs of political expediency. He was a man who famously described himself as a “prisoner of hope,” a prophet who looked…
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Media “Business as Usual” Elected Donald Trump and Helps Elect MAGA Politicians
The Media still does not know how to cover Trump or MAGA in a way that shows their true threat to freedom and the rule of law. “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false,…
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Trump’s Assault on International Law Threatens Peace and Encourages War Crimes
For nearly eight decades, global peace and stability have rested on a fragile, hard-won conviction: that the power of nations must be bound by a shared framework of law. Born from the devastation of World War II, this rules-based order—anchored by the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions, and a network of human rights treaties—was…