Trump

Robert Reich04.04.2025

In many ways this was another horrific week. Like a terrible hurricane, the Trump dictatorship is sweeping more people into its maw while further destroying our public institutions and wrecking what’s left of our civil norms. Yet this week also featured 11 reasons for modest optimism: 1. Wisconsin Supreme Court vote Despite Elon Musk’s hysterical […]

Robert Reich01.04.2025

The past week has been another horror show, and I share your anxiety and sleeplessness. But the past week also reveals the utter incompetence of Trump and his regime. Even The Wall Street Journal criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to dismiss “Signalgate” as a hoax, calls Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff “out of his […]

Robert Reich28.03.2025

I’m not going to sugarcoat this. We’re in the worst national emergency of our lives. It is not coming directly from threats we should be coping with — climate change destroying our planet, another pandemic threatening millions of lives, artificial intelligence taking over our jobs and brains, nuclear proliferation threatening the future of life on […]

Sergey Stankevich21.03.2025

US President Donald Trump received consent from both of them to a partial ceasefire during two telephone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin (March 18) and current Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky (March 19). Moscow and Kiev basically agreed to a ban on attacks on “energy facilities”. Putin said that he had given the order for […]

Kirill Benediktov19.03.2025

On Sunday, two close associates of US President Donald Trump — his special representative for the Middle East Stephen Witkoff, who just returned from Moscow, and his national security adviser Mike Waltz — on top US programs slightly lifted the curtain on the Moscow-Washington talks on the Ukrainian conflict, which are currently taking place in […]

Sergey Stankevich14.03.2025

We are following the fate of the American idea of a 30-day truce for Ukraine. On March 11 in Jeddah, US representatives managed to wring consent from Zelensky’s envoys under pressure. On March 13, Washington’s special representative Steven Witkoff discussed the Russian position, later made public by President Vladimir Putin. This position has become a […]

Vladimir Golstein08.03.2025

What exactly is going on? Who is teaching whom? Same idiotic costumes, same rude behavior, same self-righteousness bordering on Chutzpah. Why all these antics during Trump’s address? Yes, Trump is prone to some obnoxious mannerisms. Fine. He obviously has more than that if he came to White House second time around. What exactly is he […]

Sergey Stankevich05.03.2025

With this “good news” US President Donald Trump began his 100-minute speech, which was listened to by both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court justices. The Republican part of the hall applauded standing. The Democrats whistled, booed and raised protest signs. The most zealous Democrat, who interrupted Trump and waved his cane at him, […]

Sergey Stankevich02.03.2025

This is what the US position looks like under Trump, which has now – thanks to the developer Zelensky – fully manifested itself. When the dust settled in the American White House after the touring performance of Zelensky’s troupe, when the wave of anger, gloating and “pathos of office” subsided in the world capitals, when […]

Sergey Stankevich01.03.2025

Kash Patel was sworn in as the ninth FBI director in Washington, D.C., in the presence of his parents and girlfriend. Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel, 45, who barely made it through his Senate hearings, is tasked with Donald Trump’s most difficult and dangerous job: exposing and cleaning up the secret network of the “deep state.” […]

Additional Small Reasons for Modest Optimism

It Would All Be Comic if Not So Tragic

Six Small Morsels of Hope

How to Stop the Fire

The Moscow-Washington Talks in a Gist

Nuances Make a Truce Workable

Zelensky Redux, or Democrats in Congress

America is Back!

Senior Peacekeeper Seeks Junior

The Storm of the Deep State

What Should You Do When the Head Doctor is a Pathologist?

Japan to Keep Importing Russian LNG

The Deal of the Century for Trump the Peacemaker

Fasting