By Richard Robbins An untold number of Americans woke early last week with a sinking feeling: A handful of Democratic senators had bolted to support a Republican bill reopening the government, minus the health care subsidies Democrats had been fighting to save. Donald Trump had won, Democrats ...
By Richard Robbins On Friday evening before election day, while millions of Americans were losing federal food assistance and faced the prospect of going hungry, the president presided at a Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, his lush Florida estate. Gatsby, the fictional ...
Uniontown and Washington were among the communities across the country to stage “No Kings’ rallies Saturday. George C. Marshall Memorial Plaza was the staging area for the rally in Uniontown, where protesters – some dressed in costume – gathered to share their views about the current ...
On the sidewalk outside a Walgreens in Chicago, an agent of the federal government pinned a 21-year-old man to the pavement, while a woman screamed, "He's a citizen! He's a citizen!" Pulling up a cloth mask to conceal the lower portion of his face, the agent, from Immigration and Customs ...
Ironically enough, the actions of the president who was the chief champion of American democracy to the world in the 20th century could be repurposed by Donald Trump to do serious, perhaps permanent, harm to that very form of government in the U.S. In the summer of 1941, as the United States ...
Alarmed by what they’ve seen as a swerve into authoritarian rule, dozens of Fayette County residents turned out for Saturday’s Fayette Against Fascism protest in Uniontown. President Trump’s move to send more than 2,000 National Guard members into Washington, D.C., is one glaring ...
