Protestors at the April 6 anti-xenophobia demonstration here in Aberdeen received far more positive reactions from passersby than negative. Among the scarce explicit rejections of their loving,…
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The last question at John Thune’s Aberdeen town hall Monday came from an older gentleman who, like Donald Trump, said our national debt is a…
Donald Trump touts “extreme vetting” of people trying to get into the United States. Yet he has done an extremely poor job of vetting the people he let…
In his dubious and futile attempt to restore coal mining jobs (which declined far more precipitously under Reagan/Bush than they did under Obama), Donald Trump also seeks less…
U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is showing his racist stripes. Under the familiar guise of “local control” (read: states’ rights), the U.S. Attorney General yesterday ordered…
The dangerous incoherence of the Trump Administration continues. Today, the President of the United States said that the U.S. can “solve” North Korea unilaterally. He has…
As if denying us water isn’t enough, the Trump budget also puts our food supply in peril. So says Elizabeth Grossman in Civil Eats: “Regardless of…
Do millionaires move to take advantage of lower state tax rates? Yes, but not much, says this 2016 study in the American Sociological Review. Stanford researchers…
Every time Donald Trump shouts his fake news from the White House, he reveals himself to be a fake President. So says the certainly not liberal Wall Street…
In more security theater, the Trump Administration has ordered airlines flying from eight relatively friendly Muslim countries to ban passengers from bringing any electronic devices larger…