Crackdown on migrants
In mid-March, Reuters reported that Mexico would “restrict movement on its southern border with Guatemala to help contain the spread of COVID-19.” The same article noted that the Joe Biden…
Backing Bernie
If they were smart, the Democratic Party would support Bernie Sanders as their nominee. But of course, they won’t, if there’s any way they can prevent his nomination. Not surprisingly,…
A welcome intervention
“Excuse me, occasionally it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy.”I don’t think I’ve heard that much honesty from a mainstream-party presidential candidate in virtually…
Biden maintains grip on 2020 Democratic race
Those expecting Joe Biden's presidential candidacy to flame out any day now will have to keep waiting. The former US vice president survived another Democratic debate on Thursday largely unbloodied…
Trump slams ‘disgraceful’ Democrat’s profane impeachment vow
A Democratic congresswoman kicked off her term with an expletive-laced vow to impeach Donald Trump, testing her party's discipline and earning a chiding Friday from the president. As a clip…
A national disgrace
Early on Wednesday afternoon, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, had a fire drill, an eleventh-grader named Gabriella Figueroa told MSNBC’s Brian Williams. “Then we heard gunshots,” Figueroa…
Whitewashing the Bush legacy
If “the present conducts the past the way a conductor conducts an orchestra”, bringing forward “these particular sounds, or those, and no others” – as the great Italian novelist Italo…
Revisiting the Turkish coup
The day of July 16 will remain one of the most important and inspiring dates in the modern Turkish history – perhaps as important as October 29, the republic day…
Trump toys with violent imagery in his ‘fake news’ feud
US President Donald told a rally of supporters Saturday night in Washington that he would not be silenced by "the fake media." Hours later, Trump tweeted a faked video of…
Nothing new
The news business is in a sweat about fake news. The temperature has been rising since the November election of Donald Trump as President and it went febrile on February…
