Sundareshan and De Los Santos React to Trump’s Plan to Hike Up Prices on the American People
Incoming Senate Democratic Leader Priya Sundareshan and House Democratic Leader Oscar De Los Santos.
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In a Back to the 1950s Alt-Reality Parody Ad, The Lincoln Project Goes After MAGA and Project 2025 in “Convention”
In one of the better ads of this campaign season, the Lincoln Project has released “Convention,” an alt-reality parody of a 1950s commercial that skillfully showcases how Project 2025 would be bad for everyone in this country who is not a White Evangelical Christian Nationalist Male. The narrator, acting like someone selling appliances in the … Read more
Critical Race Theory And American Farm Policy
Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. Here is a real life example. Donald Trump initiated a number of tariffs in his trade war with … Read more
America’s farmers need to put their economic survival ahead of GOP tribalism
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was the guest of honor at the annual Farmfest gathering in southern Minnesota this month. He didn’t realize that he was on the menu. He was booed after joking that farmers are “whiners” who need to suck it up for Trump trade policies. The New York Times reports, Farmers’ Frustration With … Read more
Trump’s trade war with China and economic mismanagement raises risk of recession
Mr. “trade wars are easy to win” is blowing up the world’s economy with his 19th Century trade war with China, and is ensuring a global recession. The day began with Beijing’s announcement that it would levy new tariffs on $75 billion in goods, including reinstated levies on auto products, starting this fall. It all … Read more