June 28, 2018
Cover Story
Editorial Board
now we see no attempt to embrace anybody’s rights. Donald Trump has isolated the United States from its human rights legacy and moral history. Donald Trump is an isolationist who has failed to understand the ways that our global connection has benefitted us.
Usually, I call him 45. Don’t want to feed the ego of a narcissist by calling out his name. But every shred of ignominy that is…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?
Note: Frederick Douglass gave this speech on July 5, 1852 at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Corinthian Hall in…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
China’s close security and military relationship with the African continent could help protect the nation’s vast international investments and economic interests, allowing it to police the trade routes that support the Chinese economy.
China has established itself in Africa in substantive ways, enlarging its footprint there and broadening its ties to the continent. This development points to an Asian…
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Commentary
Columnist
While Trump reigns, it can go in no other direction but down. Yet, as has been noted here before, Trump did not cause what is happening in America, but he is a vile symptom of the long-term decay of the ideals of America.
It is not as if the founders and a long line of presidents and congressional leaders wanted it to be, but the U.S. is becoming more…
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Commentary
Columnist
The Democrats need to accept the fact that they are not going to attract Trump voters by being politically mealy mouthed because the only way they attract Trump voters is to join them and champion their ideology. To carry on this idiotic practice while the majority of the Party is headed in a center-left direction is political suicide.
In the aftermath of these SCOTUS verdicts, Trump is becoming even more aggressive in establishing an imperial and authoritarian Presidency paralleling those of his four amigos:…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
We should be moving toward no borders. No walls. But America, now is a country where Trump supporters sit praying and waiting, banking on Trump to build walls and reinforce borders - and establish, in the process, totalitarianism as the norm.
I’m starting to find annoying all these impervious invitations to ‘take life on the bright side.’ On every poster, everyone shows their white teeth in a…
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