President Trump posted the "winners" of the 2017 Fake-News Awards on Wednesday, crashing the GOP.com website because the story was so popular. The top prize went to economist Paul Krugman of the New York Times who claimed on the day of Trump’s victory that the economy would never recover. The other Fake-News winners are equally impressive. [...]
Krugman based his story on a tweet by Kurt Eichenwald, a troubled leftist journalist. [...]
Friday Paul Krugman was reminiscing in The Times about the promise the Ryan-led Republicans would "move their party off its cruel and mindless agenda of tax cuts for the rich and pain for the poor, bringing back the intellectual seriousness that supposedly used to characterize the conservative movement." He points out that not only did that never happen but
Far right Trump-worshipping crackpot Paul Nehlen wants a rematch. He's challenging Paul Ryan in Ryan's southeast Wisconsin congressional district to a primary battle again. In 2016 Nehlen put up $62,766 of his own and raised another $1,379,852 in a clash with Ryan. Nehlen was the Breitbart candidate and had very vocal support from Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter and Phyllis Schlafly.
I don't usually look for inspiration on TV, but Friday night I found it... on Bill Maher's show, no less. His special guest was Elizabeth Warren, whose new book, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle To Save America's Middle Class is now available. She puts the rise of Trumpism into the context of increasing economic inequality. As she told Maher's audience Friday, she wrote that productivity has gone up in this country from 1935 to the present.
When Dan Levitin was working on his 2014 bestseller- The Organized Mind-- he interviewed former Secretary of Labor, Treasury and State, George Schultz, primarily about lessons Schultz had learned from his days as the president of corporate behemoth Bechtel from 1974-'82, before Reagan appointed him Secretary of State.
In his column yesterday, Paul Krugman wrote that not only is Trump "the least qualified individual, temperamentally or intellectually, ever installed in the White House," but that "the broader Republican quagmire-- the party’s failure so far to make significant progress toward any of its policy promises-- isn’t just about Mr.
In the drive to damage President Trump, American liberals have seized on his desire for more cooperation with Russia, baiting him as “a Putin puppet,” a dangerous strategy, says Norman Solomon. By Norman Solomon Four weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency, New…Read more →
Last year, one of the very first candidates Blue America endorsed for Congress was Jamie Raskin, a Maryland state Senator and constitutional law professor at American University. We knew him from his work as a counsel at People for the American Way and as the very skilled and successful majority whip in the state legislature.
