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Rightwing media have seized on campus protests to portray the president as weak. Will it have an impact in November? At the height of the tensions on US campuses this week, with Republicans gleefully seizing on student unrest as an election issue that could propel Donald Trump back into the White House, Joe Biden tried […]
The mistakes made at one point in time have an eerie way of re-emerging as memories fade Get Robert Reich’s latest columns delivered straight to your inbox I’ve been spending the last several weeks trying to find out what’s really going on with the campus protests. I’ve met with students at Berkeley, where I teach. […]
From an absurd Senate where California and Wyoming are equal, to Republican voter suppression, Ari Berman covers it all Ari Berman’s new book is a rich history of America’s ambivalent attitude toward majority rule. The founding document declared “all men are created equal”, but by the time a constitution was drafted 11 years later, there […]
Republicans accuse president of weak response, but prominent Democrats claim he ‘has been very strong from the beginning’ Some Democrats rallied to the defense of Joe Biden on Sunday as the president came under increased criticism over his response to pro-Palestinian student protests and his handling of Israel’s war on Gaza. Republicans have seized on […]
Google reportedly removed an ad from former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign this week that targeted President Joe Biden on inflation and illegal immigration. The ad reportedly sought to reach black voters, with whom Biden is struggling recent polling, in rural Georgia. The ad depicts a woman working for the Biden campaign getting rejected by […]
X owner Elon Musk slammed actor Robert De Niro this week for comparing former President Donald Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. De Niro, who has regularly made comments along these lines for nearly the last decade, renewed his attacks on Trump during an interview on MSNBC this week. “I think other people are going […]