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Trump administration pushing private business over human well-being

For yet more proof that the Trump administration has abandoned the traditional government role of oversight to form an unholy alliance with private enterprise, you need not look further than a recent meeting of World Health Organization (WHO) affiliates.At a gathering in Geneva of the World ...

History rife with pattern, but not repetition

History doesn’t repeat itself. That would be something. Welcome to Groundhog Day the movie.Still, there are patterns.An example, which might explain the still-unfolding scandals of the Trump administration:The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., argued: “When private interest dominates (the ...

TrumpĢƵ uncivil defense

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a point.Last Monday, she stepped to the podium during a White House briefing and she was rightfully upset, because she’d been asked to leave a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Virginia.The owner of the Red Hen restaurant polled her ...

The Jefferson contradiction

For those of us trying to make sense of American history, the “little mountain” home of Thomas Jefferson is a good place to start.A four-hour-plus car drive from home, Monticello contains the vast contradictions of Jefferson the man and the nation he helped lead to independence. Not for ...

So the tough guy blinks….

President Trump still wants to build a wall.Instead, he ran head first into a wall built on the collective outrage of people who had enough of him using children snatched from their parentĢƵ arms, as a cheesy political maneuver.Splat!In the end, Trump, the tough guy, blinked; caved; ...

So, where are the promised coal jobs?

Donald Trump came into office vowing to give new life to U.S. mining. At rallies in Pittsburgh and elsewhere he pledged to boost coal mine employment. He again touched on the subject during a rally last Wednesday evening in Duluth, Minnesota.The results so far have been less than stellar. As of ...