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Biden Needs to Fire the FBI Director
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File By conservative estimates, far-right terror killed 87 people during the first three years of the Trump administration, nearly twice as many as the last three years of the Obama administration. White supremacist violence accounts for the majority of terrorist attacks committed in the United States, the frequency and lethality of which is only escalating. Most recently, six women of Asian descent were killed in the recent Atlanta spa shootings.
Biden Needs to Fire the FBI Director
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. By conservative estimates, far-right terror killed 87 people during the first three years of the Trump administration, nearly twice as many as the last three years of the Obama administration.
We Need an Interior Department Aimed at Environmental Justice -- Not Destruction
President Biden’s executive order to tackle the climate crisis aims to take coordinated measures to wean the U.S. off fossil fuels — and, significantly, mentions the Department of the Interior (DOI) as a significant player in this pursuit. The department’s role in facilitating oil and gas exploration on public land has contributed to the climate crisis while also leaving a disproportionate number of Indigenous communities suffering from environmental toxicity and related illnesses.
A Living Wage Should Be A Constitutional Right
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. With Democrats refashioning their legislative approach to their $15 an hour minimum wage commitment, working Americans are once again stuck in the paltry bottom line of $7.25 an hour that currently stands. The meager rate — unchanged since 2009 — ensures that the nation’s number of low income earners will continue to grow, particularly in communities of color.
Trump Holdovers Still Dot U.S. Attorneys Offices
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. De-Trumpifying all levels of the Department of Justice (DOJ), an agency still suffering from the corruption of the previous administration, remains a critical factor in Joe Biden’s success. President Trump notoriously manipulated U.S. attorneys, firing those he feared would interfere with his businesses and unearth the Trump Organization’s crimes.
If We Ran the Zoo
A lefty named Ted used his art to fight bigots His books and cartoons were like tolerance spigots. He located his parables on islands and zoos And adopted the sweet pen name of Doctor Seuss. Some of his Sneetches had bellies with stars They dissed other Sneetches with none upon thars. The north-going Zax dumbly blocked the way Of the south-going Zax so that neither could play. So many of his stories had the same takeaway: No one is privileged, no race should hold sway.
A Year Into COVID And We’re Still Trying To Keep Our Brains Occupied: TPM’s Favorite Biographies And Memoirs
So, unbelievably (or maybe believably — take your pick) we’re hitting the one-year mark of quarantine life. TPM will get to celebrate this “momentous” occasion in about a week on March 11, the day the New York office started working remote.
Resignations of Trump-Appointed US Attorneys Is Just The Start Of DOJ’s De-Trumpification
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. In the Reconstruction era following the Civil War, the Department of Justice was created in part to deliver and oversee equal rights to formerly enslaved Black men and women. This corrective institution was a major step toward building a federal government that protects the civil rights of all its citizens. In the wrong hands, however, the department can be weaponized.
Christian Nationalism’s Role In The Insurrection Was Four Decades In The Making
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. While federal investigations into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol will no doubt continue for months, next week’s Senate trial in the second impeachment of Donald Trump brings into focus the question of who is accountable for the recent assault on American democracy.
Biden Team’s Looming NatSec Conflicts Spell Trouble
In January of 1961, President Eisenhower warned the nation of the union between the mushrooming arms industry and the Department of Defense. The military-industrial complex, as he put it, would imperil democracy and put the defense industry in the driver’s seat of the nation’s foreign and domestic policy.
Joe Biden Must Not Look for Unity in Mitch McConnell’s Obstruction
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. Last week, Mitch McConnell chose to fan the flames of baseless electoral conspiracy rather than acknowledge Joe Biden’s indisputable victory. Meanwhile, prominent Democrats took to the airwaves to insist that working with McConnell would not be nearly as hard as people claimed. This is dangerous, wishful thinking.
Donald Trump politicized the federal bureaucracy. The next president needs to reverse that.
Photo Credit: Lazyllama/Shutterstock.com In an effort to mitigate the political damage from failing to contain the virus and manage its corollary crises, the White House recently mandated that the Department of Agriculture include a signed letter from Donald Trump inside food boxes, claiming credit for the federal program providing food to families in need.
The Same Racist Rhetoric Used To Oppose D.C. Statehood Keeps The Federal Government Dysfunctional
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The House’s passage of legislation approving D.C. statehood in late June marked a milestone in the political struggle for full enfranchisement of the district, which, until recently, was a majority African-American city, and would become America’s most predominantly African-American state.
Should Big Brother watch everything you do in the Big Easy? Council defers action yet again
The New Orleans City Council is scheduled to vote Thursday on an ordinance that would mandate live-feed surveillance cameras at every local business with an alcohol license. New Orleanians who care about the city’s culture and the well-being of already marginalized members of our community need to hope the measure fails.
The complicity of the white liberal left in the rise of Donald Trump
Europeans so often look at the United States with a mix of wonderment, disgust and deep confusion, especially when it comes to Americans voting against their own economic interests — as is the case with the support for Donald Trump of a sizeable portion of the white working class.
The Judicial Bench Needs Professional Diversity, Too
Before he became the first African American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall had a groundbreaking legal career — one spent fighting for civil rights, racial equality, and fairness in the criminal justice system. When he retired from the Court, his colleagues reflected on how his unique perspective influenced the Justices’ deliberations.
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