HIllary Clinton’s campaign sells her as a competent administrator. But she doesn’t offer any substantial policy changes that would improve Americans’ lives. All she really promises is to try to protect the status quo.
No Country for Old Airline Passengers
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The U.S. Senate voted down an amendment that almost every American could have approved of heartily, a Chuck Schumer-sponsored measure that would have allowed the FAA to tell airlines to stop packing passengers into planes like sardines. At a time like this can anyone doubt that this isn’t a democracy?
The Case for Ted Cruz
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As the second-place candidate in the Republican campaign, Ted Cruz is the main beneficiary of the Stop Trump movement. He can make a case against Trump, but can he make the case for himself?
TPP
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Economists say that free trade agreements like TPP, which are unpopular with voters and have driven the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders,are good for the American economy overall, as long as dispossessed employees are provided with assistance. But they never are.
Satire Comes to the End of the Line
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Donald Trump’s campaign leaps over one taste line after another. Now his campaign manager has been formally charged by the police with physically assaulting a reporter during a rally. Trump promises to stand by his employee. What next for this crazy campaign, in which his supporters will forgive anything?
Thank You For the Precious Gift of Capitalism
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In one of his few major accomplishments, President Obama has moved toward normalization of diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba. But Cubans are already suffering such symptoms of “shock capitalism” familiar to 1990s Russia as inflation and food shortages.
In the South, Segregated Restrooms Are Back
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North Carolina has passed a law prohibiting cities and counties from protecting the rights of the LGBTQA community, including “bathroom laws” that allow trans people to use bathrooms that correspond to their gender identities. This will, among other things, force trans men to use the ladies’ room.
The Muscle in Brussels
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ISIS-affiliated suicide bombers attacked the passenger terminal at the Brussels International Airport, prompting calls for increased security not just at access points to flights, but at the entrance of the terminals. Where does this ever end?
How Do You Like Your Wars?
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If the presidential race comes down to a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, American voters will have to choose between a woman who never met a war she didn’t like, and a manic bull in a china shop who could easily start a war by accident.
