Trump's White House
Health problems in the US, and the repercussions
Jacqueline Maley’s excellent analysis covers parts of the utterly broken system in the US that Luigi Mangione experienced in a failed healthcare system,
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Trump's America
What’s scarier than Trump suing to cow the media? The media caving in
News outlets need to keep saying Trump is all the things the courts have declared him to be.
- by Bill Wyman
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Trade wars
How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can resolve US-China relations
While we were sleeping, China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything. Will China bury us? That is not at all inevitable.
- by Thomas L. Friedman
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Trump's America
America is revolting, but at least it’s through the ballot box
Vigilantes such as America’s Luigi Mangione think violence will deliver justice. Trumpism is a revolutionary movement, but at least it’s arrived by democratic vote.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Biden’s largest single-day act of clemency; Trump crowned Time’s person of the year
While it is customary for presidents to grant mercy at the end of their term, never before have so many pardons or commutations been issued on a single day.
- by Farrah Tomazin
‘Dancing in the street’: Wall Street’s titans can’t wait for Trump 2.0
These days, it seems that everyone who is anybody on Wall Street is amped up for Trump’s return to the Oval Office. With Trump 2.0, there’s apparently something for everyone in the financial arena.
- by Rob Copeland
Dutton divides the nation, the Indigenous flag unites
Recognising the country’s original owners brings us closer together; to remove the flag divides us. Dutton knows this and is taking a page out of Trump’s playbook.
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Globalisation
When Trump says the world’s ‘a little crazy right now’, you know it’s bad
We should rethink the designation of 2024 as the year of democracy and think of it as the year when everything, everywhere, all at once seemed to go off the rails.
- by Nick Bryant
Before you swallow Dutton’s nukes, look at the evidence
So, Peter Dutton tells us that his nuclear policy will be cheaper than Labor’s renewables policy. I would recommend to readers the Climate Council’s myth-busting article “The seven ways the federal Coalition could cook the books on nuclear costings”.
Clouds gather over Pete Hegseth’s nomination as Trump’s Pentagon chief
The Fox News presenter has vowed he would “never back down” even as other names are floated for the role, including one-time Trump rival Ron DeSantis.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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Joe Biden
Joe Biden can be blamed for many things, but pardoning his son is not one of them
There’s no doubt Joe Biden has a case to answer after pardoning his son Hunter, but the hype around this story is out of all proportion.
- by Bill Wyman
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/trump-s-white-house-1m69