New Orleans The Trump 2.0 administration has choked off aid to other countries, especially poor countries where the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID) was a lifesaver in combating disease, mitigating disasters, and assisting in economic development. Legal action has left the agency on a lifeline, but money is still not moving. …
Category: Politics
Reading the Tea Leaves
San Francisco Visiting the California Bay Area on my annual spring multi-meeting tour, unsurprisingly, the new Trump administration, its operations, excesses, and follies invariably sucked up no small amount of conversation. Nonetheless, life goes on, even as heads shake with everyone waiting for the next shoe to fall. Reading the tea leaves, there’s …
Trump’s War on Workers and the Poor
Little Rock There are so many battle lines on the Trump offensive against the American people and the government, but it’s hard not to see a central theme being an attack on the poor and workers. Workers have gotten more of the headlines with the layoffs and attempted firings of tens of thousands of …