'Indefensible': Trump budget law subsidises private jet owners while taking healthcare from millions
A provision of the budget law that President Donald Trump signed last week will leave taxpayers to pick up the tab for the private jet industry and billionaire high flyers.
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Trump’s budget and the 21st century great divergence
Donald Trump’s recently passed budget has the capacity to lay the foundation for a widening gap between the world's two largest economies, the United States and China, and make China as great, comparatively, as it was before the industrial revolution.
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Lawsuit aims to end 'systematic' snatching of brown-skinned people by Trump agents
These guys are popping up, rampant all over the city, just taking people randomly, and we want that particular practice to end, one attorney in the case said of Department of Homeland Security agents.
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The deep politics behind Trump’s presidency
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7 July 2025
MAGA buyers’ remorse and the trouble with Christian nationalism
For those who do begin to question, the challenge is not to nudge them leftward or toward some ideologically approved alternative. The challenge is simply to stay in the discomfort long enough for something more honest to emerge.
6 July 2025
Mamdani’s magnificent primary win – What follows
People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York over ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo.
5 July 2025
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill is fascism in writing
It establishes an anti-immigrant police state in America, replete with a standing army of ICE agents and a gulag of detention facilities, and it was passed by a narrow margin despite popular opinion.
5 July 2025
Ocasio-Cortez calls Trump's budget bill 'deal with the devil'
It explodes our national debt, it militarises our entire economy, and it strips away healthcare and basic dignity of the American people. For what? To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation.
4 July 2025
The Western allies of the US as vassal states
A vassal state is one that retains some autonomy at home but is effectively dominated by another power in its foreign affairs.
4 July 2025
Iran: The things it won’t do to say
If Thomas Friedman’s fairytale world of light-versus-darkness were to evaporate, less noble motives for US and Israeli actions might be revealed.
3 July 2025
The time has arrived for a comprehensive Middle East peace
The attack by Israel and the US on Iran had two significant effects.
3 July 2025
So... calling for peace isn’t enough, but dropping bombs gets a free pass?
When China submitted a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Iran, the response wasn't debate or discussion. It was suspicion.
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