With the beginning of a new administration, it is natural that the focus is on what changes should be expected - and President Trump's raft of executive orders, often directly overturning those of his predecessor, has certainly strengthened that focus. However, a hostility to trade is a longer-term
immigration
As President Trump takes office for the second time, all indications are that he will attempt to interpret the US constitution to deny citizenship to children born in the US on the basis of their parents' relationship to the Federal Government. While this is a substantial break with US
Syria
The October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel - and the brutal retaliation that has followed - prompted a wave of predictions from pundits about what would happen in the region. Most agreed that major changes were coming to Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, and likely Lebanon. What almost no
politics
For many businesses, this time of year is a sort of limbo, where weeks are short and interrupted by holidays, with employees traveling, watching over vacationing kids, or nursing the aftereffects of holiday cheer. For the judiciary and the White House, however, this is a busy season indeed - the
Democrats reeling from their narrow electoral loss in 2024 have turned to many explanations, and also point to some worrying trends. The rising Latino share of the nation's voting population has long been a beacon of hope for the future of the party, offering a future where a
Perhaps against better judgement, particularly given the poor performance of incumbents worldwide of late, many liberals went into the 2024 election cautiously optimistic, hoping that a mentally declining Trump and his fanbase of increasingly open racists would finally turn off the American population once and for all. The next day
It's unclear precisely why the Post and Times have taken this direction ...But their decisions feel like ‘neutrality’ not in the sense of reasoned independence but rather a cowardly refusal to make a stand.
More Progressive - but not more liberal - than expected President Joseph Biden entered the 2020 presidential field and was immediately, for better and worse, identified as the ‘establishment’, ‘centrist’ candidate of the major candidates with a real chance at winning. There description was not inaccurate, especially compared to the
international relations
The US is being asked to supply weapons to two states. It's important to choose which one will actually advance both American and liberal interests.
Military veterans have always been a major part of the American political landscape, since the first commander of the Continental Army was unanimously chosen as the first president of the unified republic. And in that time, the question of what level of deference to this class of veterans has been
politics
Denying the citizens of Gaza water or medicine on account of their actions taken by other Gazans cannot be justified on any liberal principle - and the same applies to any effort to reduce individuals to members of a group and assign them guilt on that account.
Economics
A publicly owned satellite communication company, purchased from its current owner at a fair price, is the best solution to the dilemmas presented by this advancing technology.