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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…

Where the MAGA Movement and the Progressive Left Coincide

Too Far Left To Be Part of the Left In 2020 I wrote articles and did a lot of social media promotion for the Bernie Sanders campaign. As I recall it was in July of that year that a group…

The Biggest World News Item of 2024 Was Not the Recent US Election

The World Had Already Changed Before November 5th Although many of you will find this hard to believe, a series of events took place this year and last year that, in their level of global importance and future impact, trumped…

The Success of the Radical Right in Northern Europe and the Conservatives’ Agenda Project 2025

Susi Meret is an Associate Professor at the Danish University of Aalborg and for 25 years she has been interested in the Danish radical right specifically, but also in that of other countries.  This will be the focus of our…

Migration at the center of US-Mexico relations: can a collaboration process take place?

There is much talk about what Trump could do with his anti-immigration policy, especially about those coming from Central America and Mexico. Therefore, the words of Claudia Sheinbaum, the new President of Mexico, who yesterday highlighted on her social network…

The end of the cycle, Trump and his new world

The election of Donald Trump in the United States marks the definitive change of a political cycle in that country, and if not, in the world. While eight years ago it was thought that Trump was just a political anomaly,…

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