Op-Ed

November 30, 2016 – When immigration officers forcibly remove individuals from their homes, it impacts the psychological, emotional and economic well-being of their families and communities. President-elect Donald Trump stated throughout his campaign that he wanted to leverage a “deportation force” to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S. In an […]

Nov. 28, 2016 – One Saturday afternoon in 2011, my wife and daughter were out, and I was on my front steps, talking on the phone with my sister. Three law enforcement cars drove up, and I told my sister, “Something must be going on.” Suddenly, agents got out and started running toward me. They […]

Nov. 28, 2016 – Brenda Ekwurzel is Senior Climate Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists Word has it that the NASA Earth Science program is on the chopping block. Bad decision! The NASA Earth Science program provides information about the Earth that plays a vital role in our scientific advancement, our national security, and […]

Nov. 26, 2016 – James Zogby is President of the Arab American Institute, a non-profit, nonpartisan national leadership organization created to nurture and encourage the direct participation of Arab Americans in political and civic life in the United States. Last week, I joined several hundred protesters in a sit-in in front of the Army Corps […]

Nov. 28, 2016 – Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it. They use seven techniques that, worryingly, President-elect Donald Trump already employs. 1. Berate the media. Last week, Trump summoned two-dozen TV news anchors and executives to the twenty-fifth floor of Trump Tower to berate […]

Washington – In a new Arizona Republic piece, “Why exit polls are wrong about Latino voters in Arizona,” Stephen A. Nuño and Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta refute exit poll claims that 31% of Arizona Latinos cast votes in favor of Donald Trump. Relying on analysis of precincts – instead of counties – Nuño and Wilcox-Archuleta find that […]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2016 — In response to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education, AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement: The president-elect, in his selection of Betsy DeVos, has chosen the most ideological, anti-public education nominee put forward since President Carter created a Cabinet-level Department of […]

Nov. 22, 2016 – Meredith McGehee is Chief of Policy, Programs and Strategy Today in a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, President-elect Donald Trump made the spurious claim that, “The law is totally on my side, the president can’t have a conflict of interest.” The president can indeed have a conflict. That is […]

SYDNEY, Nov. 22, 2016 – Stanford researchers Paul and Anne Ehrlich offer suggestions on coping in a world where science suddenly feels devalued. Like virtually all people with interest in the functioning of human society, we’ve been thinking about the consequences of a Trump presidency. The results of the election were a shock but not […]

MARRAKECH, Nov. 21, 2016 – Lou del Bello is a Freelance journalist and regular IRIN contributor If last year’s climate talks in Paris saw UN member states designing a (climate-friendly) engine, this year in Marrakesh they have been tinkering with it, figuring out how to bring it up to speed. Despite the setback of the […]

Nov. 21, 2016 – Trump’s First 100 Day agenda includes repealing environmental regulations, Obamacare, and the Dodd-Frank Act, giving the rich a huge tax cut, and much worse. Here’s the First 100 Day resistance agenda [with thanks to Alan Webber]: 1.  Get Democrats in the Congress and across the country to pledge to oppose Trump’s agenda. […]

November 21, 2016 – In his first two weeks as president-elect, Donald Trump already has shown that he will be a walking conflict of interest until he divests his business empire. President-elect Trump’s original proposal to deal with these issues is an illusion. He proposed to place his business empire in a “blind trust” to […]

Nov. 21, 2016 – A key Donald Trump policy advisor is a threat to the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s core values and mission — and to the foundations of our secular republic. President-elect Trump recently named Steve Bannon as his White House chief strategist. Bannon is the former executive chairman of the Breitbart News Network, […]

November 18, 2016 – Many presidents have assumed the reins of a divided nation, but we’ve never seen anything like the reaction to Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential election. It didn’t happen to Richard Nixon while the country was bitterly split over race and war. Half of the country believed Al Gore was cheated out […]

Nov. 18, 2016 – President-elect Donald Trump made a number of promises to his voters. Here is today’s post about a promise that he has already broken. This is already becoming a regular series. Pre-Election Trump: “We Can’t Do That” Donald Trump campaigned on a promise not to cut Social Security or Medicare. Because who […]

Nov. 17, 2016 – Naoki Sakai, professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at Cornell University, and expert on Japanese nationalism, says while Abe and Trump – who are scheduled to meet today – have much in common, including their overt populism and nationalistic tendencies, Trump’s promises to withdraw from the region is a serious […]

Nov. 18, 2016 – The following is by Eric A. Friedman, JD, an associate with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. People from all walks of life who believe in human rights and social justice woke up with great fear on November 9. For the U.S. President-elect had, during […]

Washington November 18, 2016 – Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today released the following statement on reports that Senator Jeff Sessions will be nominated to be attorney general. “The Justice Department has the awesome responsibility of upholding the country’s laws and protecting Americans, and the attorney general sets the tone for the entire agency. That’s why […]