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6 of the Largest U.S. Banks Leaving Net Zero Alliance Ahead of Trump

Retreat From Climate Pledges Deemed ‘a Lily-Livered Effort to Avoid Criticism’ Six of the largest banks in the United States have bowed out of the global Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), with the inauguration of Donald Trump predicted to bring political backlash concerning climate action, reported The…

“Let’s call it Mexican America”: President Sheinbaum hits back at Trump’s comment on renaming Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday mocked U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America,” referring to the United States. Sheinbaum gave her daily press conference in front of a…

Jimmy Carter Told Trump How to Put America First, But Will He Do It?

With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a phone conversation that Carter had with Trump during his first term. Carter’s advice would serve Trump well if…

In the supermarket of democracy, choice is an illusion. Is there a real alternative?

Too many decades have been lost to the myth that liberal democracies will deliver. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has consolidated what appears to be a swing towards citizens voting right-wing, authoritarian politicians into…

The Second Coming (The Disappearance of the Traditional Political “Left” and “Right” in the 21st Century)

The Center Did Not Hold About 100 years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called “The Second Coming” which has become one of the most well known and oft quoted poems of the 20th and 21st centuries.(1) In the…

Naturalized? Born Here? Protected Against Trump’s Immigration Policies? I Wouldn’t Be So Sure

During Trump’s first term, one word characterized his immigration policies, and it wasn’t efficiency—it was cruelty. It was cruel to yank babies from their mothers’ arms and place children in cages. It was cruel to forbid a Muslim mother, married…

This Is Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work (Are You Ready For 20 Dollar Lattes?)

An Important Distinction That the Media Has Been Missing About Trump’s Current Tariffs Threat Donald Trump, in a pre-inauguration day attempt to begin slowing down what has been termed the global “de-dollarization” process, has threatened to slap a 100% tariff…

There’s No Upside to Trump

“Trump could surprise on the upside,” writes Edward Luce, who claims to know “what Trump most cares about.” Lacking intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the president-elect’s personal thoughts, us non-pundits are relegated to looking at other indicators. By…

10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won

The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation. By Daniel Hunter It’s important we squarely face Trump’s victory and what there is to do about…

Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, and the most certain to provide continuity with all that is wrong with U.S. foreign policy, from Cuba to…

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