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 ...
By Richard Robbins Not often does a magazine edition come along that begs both reading and keeping. In the dusty archives of my home work room are several such numbers: A Life and a Look, both devoted to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and, most conspicuously, the 40th ...
Before last Saturday's "No Kings" rallies across the country, House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana declared them off limits to patriotic Americans. The anti-Donald Trump rallies were portrayed by the Republican leader as antithetical to American values; the one scheduled in Washington, ...
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 ...
