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Don’t Slow Down on Impeachment

Robert Reich. | Yes! Magazine | - - The three previous presidential impeachment inquiries rested on less evidence of obstruction of justice than is already publicly known about Trump. The real reason…

Is Trump’s Travel Ban Succeeding despite Court Blocks?

TeleSur | - - The rate of refugee resettlement has also seen a sharp decline. Despite federal courts halting Trump's restrictive and discriminatory travel ban executive order on six-Muslim majority countries for…

Wikileaks’ Assange claims Victory after Sweden drops Charges, Vows to Publish More

TeleSur | - - Swedish prosecutors dropped the rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday, saying the investigation had not been able to proceed because of legal obstacles. "Today is…

Why Watergate is not the Right Analogy for the Trump Constitutional Crisis

By Neal Gabler | (Billmoyers.com) | - - Contrary to the myth, Nixon’s resignation was anything but the inevitable consequence of a powerful constitutional juggernaut. A witness indicates H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's chief…

Priebus: Trump Could Amend Constitution to Abolish 1st Amendment

TeleSur | - - A constitutional amendment to stem negative coverage of any administration would require a supermajority in both houses of Congress. U.S. President Donald Trumps's chief of staff, Reince Priebus,…

Trump Straining to bring back Torture, Indefinite Detention?

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney launched their forever wars -- under the banner of a “Global War on Terror” -- they…

As Trump Breaks it, Top Ten Things we need to do to Fix America

By William R. Polk | (Informed Comment) | - - Let me suggest what seem to me to be the major categories of challenges men who care about the country face, but…

How to Impeach an American President

Dena Takruri | AJ+ | (Video Clip) | - - "How do you impeach a president? Well, let us explain." AJ+ "How To Impeach An American President"

Given Trump’s Betrayal, Can we Crowdfund American Aid and Soft Power Abroad?

David Holdridge | (Informed Comment) | - - The current debate between liberals and the Trump Administration on American soft power abroad is not being framed correctly. Liberals should be arguing for…

Is Trump right to doubt that Islam is a Religion?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka again declined to say on Wednesday in an NPR interview whether President Trump believes Islam is "a religion." He…

Top 5 Ways Obama is Behind Leaks, Protests against Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump did an interview with "Fox and Friends" for this morning in which he alleged that former president Barack Obama is behind the…

Is Trump a bigger danger to the US or Europe?

By Joschka Fischer | (Project Syndicate) | - - BERLIN – Little more than a month after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, it has become clear that nothing good will come of…

Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?

By Allison Beth Hodgkins | (Informed Comment) | - - You have to hand to the civil society groups pushing back on the Trump administration’s recent executive orders banning the entry of…

Protesters Face Increasing Criminalization in Trump Era

TeleSur | - - Changes aim to hit protestors with criminal records and beefed up fines and impunity for police who accidentally kill them. Donald Trump was officially sworn in Friday as…

Trump does Poor imitation of Tin-Pot Dictator at “Press Conference”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In his first news conference in months, president-elect Donald J. Trump engaged in a series of petulant tirades. For anyone like myself, who…

A Living Wage & a Right to Live: Resisting a government of Generals and Billionaires

By Rebecca Gordon | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Many of the folks I know are getting ready to play serious defense in 2017, and they’re not wrong. Before we take up our…

Reflections by a Middle Easterner on the Electoral College as a Remnant of Elite Tribalism

By Hsain Ilahiane | (Informed Comment) | - - The Founding Fathers wrote the electoral college in the United States Constitution. In late summer 2004, I became a naturalized United States citizen…

Bruited Trump pick for Nat’l Intel shreds 4th Amendment, wants Total Surveillance

TeleSur | - - On Thursday multiple mainstream media outlets reported that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked former Republican Senator Dan Coats, an outspoken advocate of illegal domestic surveillance programs, to…

Top 5 Reasons Senate Dems should block all Trump Supreme Court Nominees, Forever

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - We don't need a Trump-nominated supreme Court justice. We desperately don't need such a person. And there is no reason to have one.…

Can Trump be checked and balanced?

By Ulrike G. Theuerkauf | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - The US Presidential system has been much heralded as a prime example of horizontal accountability, but there is no guarantee how Donald…