Breaking the mold as president-elect, Trump foregoes traditional news conferences in favor of private sessions with network executives, TV anchors and journalists at The New York Times.
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By Jane Stillwater —
The American people need time to heal after this election, and we should be looking to human compassion, not our president, for a cure.
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By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams —
“It’s not a question of us working with Trump. It’s a question of Trump working with us.”
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Remember how, mere weeks ago, Trump’s supporters chanted “Lock her up!” with gusto?
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By M. Antonio Jimenez / Silicon Valley De-Bug —
If the Romans taught us anything, it is that their republic was built on excluding the many.
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By Todd Gitlin / Moyers & Company —
Defeat has many parents, and buck-passing cannot be the national pastime.
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By Jordan Riefe — While Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev languishes in prison, victims who lost limbs in the 2013 attack still struggle to cope with their horribly altered lives.
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A new report by The New Yorker follows the outgoing president in the days leading up to and following Donald Trump’s stunning victory.
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By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams —
Charges of nepotism haven’t stopped the president-elect’s daughter from joining a meeting with a head of state for second time in a week.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
The New York Times ran the “Hamilton” story above the fold, while news that Trump had settled student lawsuits over the fraudulent Trump University for $25 million was placed below the fold.
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By Sam Husseini —
Progressives must go beyond protesting Donald Trump’s election or waiting to see what he does. Bernie Sanders has it right: We need a left-right coalition.
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The Truthdig columnist and the anti-prostitution activist examine how capitalism is at the core of sex work, which Moran (pictured, far right) calls “the commercialization of sexual abuse.”
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“You want more advice, call me,” the “Saturday Night Live” actor wrote to Trump, who tweeted there was “nothing funny” about the sketch starring Baldwin that aired this weekend.
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Such a party, writes Seth Ackerman at Jacobin magazine, “must be independent—determining its own platform and educating around it. It should actually contest elections. And its candidates for public office should be members of the party, accountable to the membership, and pledged to respect the platform.”
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By Peter Richardson — Just before the presidential election, a handful of conservative writers grappled with the extremism blooming within their party. Was it too little too late or better late than never? The author presents another question that is far more important now.
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By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams —
The progressive congressman said it’s clear the president-elect is “not doing what he’s said he’s gonna do for average working Americans.”
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To withstand and ultimately overcome the imminent Trump regime, “American activists must move from detached indignation to revolutionary engagement by using the techniques of social movement creation to dominate elections,” says the co-creator of Occupy Wall Street.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
So this is Trump’s foreigner-hating country: Using Aramaic in public is now equated with terrorism.
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By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams —
He’s not admitting anything, but the man who says he “never settles” agreed to pay $25 million to avoid going to court over fraud accusations.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
The internment of U.S. citizens during World War II was a massive crime against innocents who had not been proven to have done anything wrong.
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