Archives for Best Web OpEds
January 2017
Tuesday, January 31:
Donald Trump's Authoritarian Playbook - The Atlantic - The Atlantic (1 comments)
The CIA's "Deep State", Donald Trump and His "War on Terrorism" (5 comments)
President Trump: Nationalist Capitalism, An Alternative to Globalization? (2 comments)
Monday, January 30:
NY Times: Countries Where Trump Does Business Exempted from Ban (3 comments)
As Power Intoxicates Trump, It Will Only Get Worse (1 comments)
Sunday, January 29:
The Empire Has No Clothes : Information Clearing House - ICH
LDS Church issues statement after Trump orders ban on refugees (1 comments)
Can Donald Trump Handle the Truth? (1 comments)
We Must Breathe, and Then Push (1 comments)
Fact Checking Trump's Inaccurate Statements by Glenn Kessler
Repeal and Replace with Single Payer; by Single Payer Action (4 comments)
Senate Democrats have the power to stop Trump. All they have to do is use it. - Adam Jentleson (3 comments)
Saturday, January 28:
Trump Vows to Make Paul Ryan's Nightmarish Budget Vision a Reality
Forcing Trump to Make Recess Appointments, the Catalyst for Term Limit for Supreme Court Justices (2 comments)
Friday, January 27:
Mikhail Gorbachev: Appears 'The World Is Preparing for War' (1 comments)
At least 6 journalists are facing up to 10 years in prison for covering protests (3 comments)
Why '1984' Is a 2017 Must-Read - The New York Times (6 comments)
SYRIA: "There are NO Moderates", Tulsi Gabbard's Report from Syria (7 comments)
Political science's "Theory of Everything" on the 2016 US Election - The Unz Review
A Globalism of the 1%: Donald Trump Against the World The Birth of a New Nationalist World Order by John Feffer (3 comments)
It Can Happen Here by David M. Kotz, Portside (2 comments)
Not 4 Sale: A Principle and a Slogan for Real Democrats (1 comments)
An Extremist Holding the Purse Strings - By Steven Rattner (3 comments)
Commentary: What Trump didn't say about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (2 comments)
The Politics of Cowardice - David Brooks (2 comments)
Thursday, January 26:
US Drone Killing Machine Now on Autopilot
One experience of Women's March
Scahill: Blackwater Founder Erik Prince, the Brother of Betsy DeVos, Is Secretly Advising Trump (15 comments)
Wednesday, January 25:
Help us, GOP. You're our only hope. By Garrison Keillor (2 comments)
When It Comes to U.S. Foreign Policy, the Truth Hurts
Trump's Foreign Policy: An Unwise Inconsistency? : Information Clearing House - ICH
Without a path from protest to power, the Women's March will end up like Occupy (1 comments)
Protest in the Era of Trump (1 comments)
Tuesday, January 24:
I Was at Trump's Inauguration. It Was Tiny.
Time Magazine: Donald Trump's Unprecedented Speech (2 comments)
The Banal Belligerence of Donald Trump - Roger Cohen (3 comments)
Monday, January 23:
(46) Elizabeth Warren - Timeline (2 comments)
Trump's "Russia Connection", Behind America's Perpetual Wars (3 comments)
Trump Already Being Sued Into Oblivion
Donald Trump's Presidency Will Be a Fiasco for Donald Trump (1 comments)
Donald Trump Poses a Threat Unseen in American History
Edward Snowden: 'Faith in Elected Leaders' Is a Mistake Americans Keep Making
NY Times: "Inaugural Speech Dims G.O.P. Hopes for a More Conservative Trump Agenda"
Sunday, January 22:
Stunning Admission from Obama on Wikileaks (1 comments)
Mark Morford -- The day democracy died: An epitaph
The Rutherford Institute :: Nothing Is Real: When Reality TV Programming Masquerades as Politics
Borowitz Satire -- Shocking Incident at White House
The Political Uses Of Russophobia
The Mysterious Non-Evaluation of ED Department Charter Funding: Diane Ravitch reports on Laura Chapman's research. (2 comments)
Why I Cannot Fall in Line Behind Trump - by Peter Wehner (1 comments)
We Are Mourning"But We Are Marching And Organizing for Democracy and the Earth
Saturday, January 21:
Vermont's Decentralists: Questioning Authority, Power and Wealth"- (1 comments)
Inauguration Day -- Nothing Will Ever Be The Same Again--A New Zealand Perspective
Pages on climate change and LGBT rights among topics scrubbed from the White House's website (1 comments)
My favorite signs at the Women's March on Washington - David Milbank (1 comments)
Bald Piano Guy Explains the DeVos Agenda; posted by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
American Fascistby Peter Dreier
Trump: The Bully in Charge, Gary Cage- The Guardian
Minutes after Trump becomes president, White House website deletes all mention of climate change (1 comments)
Gene V. Glass: Two Arizona Republicans Want to Prohibit Teaching "Social Justice"; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Friday, January 20:
Divide and Rule: Class, Hate, and the 2016 Election; Paul Street, Counterpunch (1 comments)
The Internal Invasion - by David Brooks (1 comments)
Donald the Unready - Paul Krugman (1 comments)
Ralph Nader: "An Open Letter To President-Elect Donald Trump"
Already...Freedom of Speech under attack
Thursday, January 19:
America's Great Working-Class Colleges - by David Leonhardt (1 comments)
Bernie Sanders' Revealing Exchange With Trump's Health Care Appointee Tom Price - BillMoyers.com (1 comments)
The Trump Resistance Plan: Step One (1 comments)
Of Two Minds - Does a Rogue Deep State Have Trump's Back? (2 comments)
Obama, the Crocodile Tears of a Cold Hearted Killer (3 comments)
Yes, Trump's Pick for Treasury Secretary Was a 'Foreclosure King' (1 comments)
Wednesday, January 18:
Will NATO's "Operation Atlantic Resolve" Be The Trigger For WW3 With Russia?
How Pure is Your Hate? (1 comments)
Michael Morrissey: A Demand for Russian 'Hacking' Proof
Betsy DeVos says guns in schools may be necessary to protect students from grizzly bears (4 comments)
Jimmy Kimmel Proves Many Americans Still Don't Know Obamacare and ACA Are One and the Same
Retweeting Donald Trump - by Paul Krugman
The Issue is Not Trump. It is Us by John Pilger
An open letter to Trump from the US press corps
Tuesday, January 17:
Cold War Jitters Resurface as U.S. Marines Arrive in Norway - NYT (2 comments)
Betsy DeVos: A Radical Destroying The Cornerstone of America, by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
The Lord of Misrule by David Brooks (1 comments)
Michael Morrissey: Washington invokes the language of war against Russia (2 comments)
Monday, January 16:
Allies Block Obama's Bid for Last Big UN Showdown With Russia
Obama's Legacy by John Whitehead (4 comments)
The Assault on Health and Safety Begins (1 comments)
Ideological macroeconomics and rising inequality
Sunday, January 15:
A Poem By John Pavlovitz, in the Style of Dr. Seuss "For President-Elect Trump; " at the Diane Ravitch blog. (1 comments)
Borowitz Satire -- Karaoke Machine Backs Out of Performing at Inauguration (2 comments)
Petition the Incoming Chairs of the DNC & RNC: Open the Primaries (1 comments)
Saturday, January 14:
This Is a Coup d'Etat, Plain and Simple (19 comments)
Friday, January 13:
Did "Fancy Bear" Really Hack the DNC? (3 comments)
Fed Chair Janet Yellen Channels Bernie Sanders in Speech to Teachers (1 comments)
Betsy DeVos and the underlying goals in the Destruction of Public Education in Michigan: at the Diane Ravitch blog (2 comments)
Jason Chaffetz threatens federal ethics head who denounced Donald Trump's "meaningless" divestment - Salon.com (1 comments)
Eight Days That Could Shake the World: Restraining Trump from Taking Office (2 comments)
Check Out This Free Online News Literacy Course - by BY MICHAEL SPIKES@ BillMoyers (2 comments)
Thursday, January 12:
Take Action: Support the Presidential Conflict of Interest Act (1 comments)
Obama's 'Farewell To Arms' As War Presidency Ends (2 comments)
The Utter Stupidity of the New Cold War (4 comments)
Michael Morrissey: Hack Everything--A Detailed Timeline of the DNC Hack (15 comments)
A Likely Way that Trump Would Be Forced Out of Office (5 comments)
The Neocon's declaration of war against Trump
U.S. Trade and Tax Policies Conspire to Stymie U.S. Manufacturing (3 comments)
Will the CIA Retaliate Against Trump?
Tuesday, January 10:
Ranked Choice Voting: An Easy Solution to Fix Our Broken Elections - IVN.us
Military Officers and Generals to Trump: Don't Torture (3 comments)
Betsy DeVoucher - Living in Dialogue (1 comments)
GQ: A Message for Trump Voters & all of us: There is something wrong with that man! (2 comments)
Global technological disruption and the predicted pace and scale of possible disruptions
The year that local zoning control comes under attack (1 comments)
Monday, January 9:
Trump must expose Obama-era power grabs
US Aristocracy Panics that Maybe Trump Is Serious
Here's How Goldman Sachs Became the Overlord of the Trump Administration
Read the US Intelligence Report on Russian Hacking
The Jane Jacobs Guide to the Trump Presidency - Did Jane Jacobs Predict the Rise of Trump? (1 comments)
Michael Morrissey: The Russians Did Not "Hack" the US Election -- a Few Facts from a Former CIA Spy (2 comments)
Michael Morrissey: The 'Post-Truth' Mainstream Media
Sunday, January 8:
Michael Morrissey: "Fake News" and the American Propaganda Machine: How Obama and Others Opened the Door (6 comments)
Saturday, January 7:
How Fake News Spreads Russian Hacking Story (1 comments)
Thom Hartmann: "Does No One Care That 7 Million Votes Were Not Counted?" (1 comments)
Trump's Neo-Fascism will be Built on Neo-Fascism of Obama and Democrat Party (2 comments)
US Spy Chief Presents Third-Party Debates as "Proof" RT Is Anti-US (1 comments)
Krugman Finds His New Voice, Going After An Incompetent Media. (5 comments)
The resistance of "Indivisible" is taking off. In fact it may well already be working!
Anti-GOP Uprising Grows as 'Indivisible Guide' to Resisting Trump Goes Viral (1 comments)
Erasing Obama - by Timothy Egan
STOP: Our Government Wants to Create a National Database about Everyone, Including YOUR Children by Diane Ravitch (4 comments)
Republican legislator introduces bill to repeal Connecticut's STUDENT DATA PRIVACY ACT. by John Pelto @- Wait What? (2 comments)
American spies would prefer if RT didn't report the news, thank you very much -- RT Op-Edge (1 comments)
Does Newsom want to be the guv who turns SF into Miami Beach? (1 comments)
Thursday, January 5:
Questions for Billionaire Betsy DeVos on Her Confirmation Hearings on January 11 (3 comments)
The Crusade Against Political Correctness Gave Trump The Cover He Needed - BillMoyers. (3 comments)
Ralph Nader: "Ready for the Jawboning Presidency of Donald Trump"
When Will the U.S. Confront Its Role in Fueling Terror Attacks Across the Planet? (1 comments)
Michael Morrissey: New McCarthyism Targets "Trump-Putin" Propaganda (2 comments)
Donald Trump Has an Enormous and Very Dangerous Wall Street Blind Spot
The Rotten State of Charter Schools in Michigan: A For-Profit Bonanza, Sponsored (2 comments)
Wednesday, January 4:
Bernie takes Huge Trump Tweet to Senate & Demands Trump Veto Medicare-Social Security Cuts (1 comments)
George Soros Plotting Financial Armageddon to Stop Trump (4 comments)
Barack Obama's Meager Legacy: Incomplete Accomplishments and Provoked Wars: What Happened? (8 comments)
Pre-Inauguration Citywide Action: We #SchoolTrump (2 comments)
House Fires at Ethics and Shoots Self - The New York Times editorial board (1 comments)
Tuesday, January 3:
Haiti: The Price of Liberation (20 comments)
How a United Iran, Russia and China are Changing The World - For the Better (1 comments)
a very simple point: organizing versus posturing; By kid oakland (10 comments)
With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office -ByEric Lipton (6 comments)
How to Become a 'Superager' (2 comments)
Guglielmo Tell: President Duterte of the Philippines for dummies (3 comments)
Monday, January 2:
Obama's Grizzly Russian Tale Leads to an Ignominious Presidential Exit (4 comments)
Can we redeem "civic virtue" in the age of Donald Trump? (3 comments)
Trump and Brexit left progressives aghast. They should be emboldened (5 comments)
Themes of 2016: Progressive parties have to address the people's anger in 2017 (6 comments)
America Becomes a Stan - Paul Krugman (2 comments)
Sunday, January 1:
Tell the Senate: Block Trump's Cabinet of Hate and Wall Street Greed (1 comments)
Twelve Must-Reads From THE INTERCEPT in 2016