Trump’s rhetoric and the politics of death
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In his address to the nation, President Trump said the U.S. would bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, "where they belong." He even threatened to destroy "electric generating plants."
What would this mean for the most vulnerable, such as ...
My first thought when sitting down to write this column was that Donald Trump is his own worst enemy. However, after 8 million people showed up on March 28 to oppose him and his policies, it appears he has some stiff competition for the title.
Still, I'll allow Trump to make the case against ...
"That God, which ever lives and loves,
One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event
To which the whole creation moves."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, ...
When President Trump spoke at the Saudi Future Investment Initiative last week, he offered a pristine example of what he calls "the weave." What detractors take for incontinent verbal rambling is, in his own telling, genius-level embroidery of a rhetorical mosaic.
While spinning his tapestry ...
Sure, the "No Kings" marches drew millions rightly protesting Donald Trump's assaults on our democratic institutions. But Democrats must dig deeper and ask how Trump could actually win another term after trying to overturn the 2020 election results with a violent attack on the Capitol. It ...
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Everywhere in the world, indigenous societies that persisted for thousands of years knew and respected the land they occupied, including its wild inhabitants. March is Women’s History month, and here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan two 19th century women quietly honored both the ...