Politics – Page 2 – Craig Calcaterra

Will the New York Times’ Trump tax bombshell break the MAGA fever?

A bombshell report reveals that Trump is a financial fraud and is probably a tax cheat. Will it matter?

The future is about power. Nothing else.

There is nothing that can be done to prevent Trump from appointing a new justice. But there is something that can be done after that. If Democrats have the guts to do it. It’s all about power.

Media, Pandemic Diary, Politics

The Pandemic Diary: Woodward and Trump

Irony defined: Bob Woodward’s final major act on the public stage could very well be one in which he argues that, when it came to tapes incriminating the President of the United States, it was the right thing to conceal them rather than to release them.

Media, Pandemic Diary, Politics, Science

“How the pandemic defeated America”

A must-read piece in The Atlantic thoroughly and comprehensively explains all of the ways in which America has failed.

Law, Politics

Police are out of control. It’s time to hit them where it hurts: their budgets

For ten days we have seen police aggression, escalation, and violence. It’s not some aberration. It’s the logical product of giving police too much money and too much power. It’s time we cut it back. Significantly.