Geography Archives: United States

During his inaugural address, Donald Trump said that he would “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley,” who “made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent—he was a natural businessman—and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did including the Panama Canal.”

Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attacks on Social Security aren’t about efficiency.

Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a U.S. war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the transformational global ‘changes they are driving together.’

Jennifer Berkshire has been writing insightfully about the rightwing attacks on public schools and on education for many years. S

The great institutions of liberal America are falling to Trump like dominoes, one by one.

In a scathing letter, Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, blasting Columbia University’s role in his abduction and the targeting of other student activists by the Trump administration.

These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.

Sure, who among us has not accidentally massacred 15 medical workers and buried them and their vehicles in a shallow grave from time to time? We’re only human, mistakes happen.

While Trump dedicates himself to making every conservative fantasy come true, millions wonder who will save them from the onslaught of the right wing fever dream. The answer is no one but ourselves.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently traveled to Guyana where he threatened military action against Venezuela.

Because the Jewish community has not shown the minimal moral capacity to call out genocide I cannot take concern around alleged pro-Palestine antisemitism seriously as it appears to just be a strategy to aid and abet Israel’s crimes.

Trump is bringing the contradictions of Canadian climate policy clearly into view.

The situation must be stated with absolute clarity: The Trump administration is moving systematically and deliberately to establish a dictatorship.

Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Four

There are many signs that Trump’s administration, supported by Israel, is intent on war with Iran, but the military realities point to a very dangerous quagmire, argues Chris Bambery.

An order based on the Alien Enemies Act was issued by U.S. President Donald Trump to supposedly stop an invasion of the defunct Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua (TDA). This is the first time said law has been invoked since World War II, although it dates back to 1798.

Donald Trump is portrayed as a “populist” committed to average working-class people, but his policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else. His administration includes 13 billionaires—including Elon Musk, the world’s richest oligarch—and he is cutting taxes on the rich and corporations while imposing a consumption tax on the poor through tariffs.

The imposition of the new U.S. tariff regime unveiled by President Trump yesterday is a declaration of economic war against the rest of the world.

Trump’s newly installed “Faith Office” raises concerns about religious freedom and equality amid his embrace of the Christian nationalist right.

It’s not April Fools day (1 April). But it might as well be as later today U.S. President Donald Trump announces another barrage of tariffs on imports into the U.S. in what Trump calls ‘Liberation Day’ and what America’s voice of big business and finance, the Wall Street journal, has called “the dumbest trade war in history.”