APB Jared Kushner and the Filthy Rich 26 Apr 201726 Apr 2017 Jared Kushner is seen everywhere but never heard. Protected by his father-in-law and by being an appointee not subject to Senate confirmation, Kushner is the president's leading adviser, having acquired…
APB Syria Policy, in Brief 10 Apr 201710 Apr 2017 Gen. H.R. McMaster on April 9: “What’s significant about the [US missile] strike is not that it was meant to take out the Syrian regime’s capacity or ability to commit…
APB Connecting the Dots in Syria’s Chemical Attack (April 4, 2017) 4 Apr 20174 Apr 2017 Just days after the Trump administration indicated it would not be US policy to unseat Syria's dictator, Bashir al-Assad, Assad grabbed at the opportunity and launched an horrific chemical-weapon attack…
APB The Media Fails on Climate Change 27 Mar 2017 Why are Americans at one and the same time concerned about climate change but uninformed about it--enough so that it is not a high priority? One reason, reported by The Guardian…
APB Foreign Policy: A Family Affair 22 Mar 201721 Mar 2017 The flip side of the Trump administration’s downgrading of the State Department is the insertion of Trump’s daughter and son-in-law into key foreign policy positions. Perhaps the failure to appoint…
APB Tillerson on North Korea 16 Mar 2017 In a rare public statement while in Japan, Secretary of State Tillerson said: “I think it’s important to recognize that the political and diplomatic efforts of the past 20 years…
APB The Freedom to be Unhealthy 13 Mar 201713 Mar 2017 Here is the real cost of "freedom" in the US today: The Congressional Budget Office has just published its estimate of what Trumpcare will really cost: 24 million more people without…
APB Serving the People and Making Money 3 Mar 2017 A report from China puts the total net worth of the roughly 3,000 members of its legislature--delegates to the National People's Congress and alternates--at about $500 billion. As more entrepreneurs…
APB The Shirker 2 Mar 2017 Donald Trump’s repeated denials of responsibility for the death of a soldier in Yemen, and his efforts to shift that responsibility to others (President Obama in this case), are evidence…
APB Lies, Lies, and More Lies 1 Mar 2017 Donald Trump's address to Congress yesterday (Feb. 28) earned him high marks, probably because the bar was set so low that even a smattering of rationality warranted applause. But the…
APB “Winning” Wars 27 Feb 2017 “We have to start winning wars again.” So said Donald Trump in explaining to US governors why the US must spend an additional $56 billion on the military. This man…
APB The Enemy of My Enemy 24 Feb 201724 Feb 2017 As Roger Cohen points out in a New York Times op-ed, “enemy of the people” is a tradition among fascists—“a near-perfect totalitarian pedigree deployed with refinements by the Nazis, Stalin…
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