Articles by: Steve Fraser

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The Trump Supreme Court Is Nothing New

Has the Trump Supreme Court gone rogue? The evidence mounts. Certainly, its recent judicial blitzkrieg has run roughshod over a century’s worth of settled law. A woman’s right to get an abortion? Gone (at least as a constitutionally protected civil right). Meanwhile, voting rights are barely hanging on, along with the 1965 Voting Rights Act that gave them life. State legislatures, so the court ruled, may[Read More…]

by 07/09/2022 Comments are Disabled World
 From the Salem Witch Hunt to Conspirator-in-Chief Donald Trump

 From the Salem Witch Hunt to Conspirator-in-Chief Donald Trump

News is “faked”; elections are “rigged”; a “deep state” plots a “coup”; Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died suspiciously in bed with a pillow over his face; aides of ex-president Barack Obama conspire to undermine foreign policy from a “war room”; Obama himself was a Muslim mole; the National Park Service lied about the size of the crowd at the president’s inauguration;[Read More…]

by 16/10/2020 Comments are Disabled World
The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now

The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now

“We are in a new era to which I do not belong,” ex-President Calvin Coolidge confided to a close friend on a cold December day in 1932 when the country and the world were already in the depths of the Great Depression. A few weeks later, he punctuated that melancholic thought by dying. Coolidge was right. Within months of his death, President[Read More…]

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