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Today I want to assess Saturday’s No Kings protests in the context of American capitalism. Standing up against Trump is not only important politically and morally. It’s also profitable. Diversity, for example, is good for business. CEOs that have scaled back their companies’ diversity ...
While the nation braced to see what would happen next in Los Angeles, on Thursday a surprising message appeared on President Trump’s Truth Social account. A day after videos emerged of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents chasing after terrified farmworkers trying to hide in ...
On Sept. 30, 1962, the University of Mississippi experienced a “mostly peaceful” demonstration. As with all such protests, it was peaceful until it wasn’t -- it became a riot, and a particularly heinous and destructive one. The mob attacked federal officers, including border patrol ...
The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles is an assault on federalism, violates federal law and manifests a dangerous pattern of governmental behavior in defiance of constitutional principles and the rule of law. None of ...
In the spring of 1775, the royal governor of Massachusetts, appointed by King George III, commanded 700 Redcoats to march to Lexington to suppress the colony’s Patriots. Almost exactly 250 years later, the American president ordered 700 Marines to Los Angeles to suppress California ...
President Donald Trump and many of his allies in Congress are making grand claims about the economic growth they say will result from the recently proposed “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Trump has accused critics of not understanding the budget proposal, “especially the tremendous GROWTH that ...