A Trump administration staffed by plutocrats – most of whom gained their wealth from rent-seeking activities, rather than from productive entrepreneurship – could be expected to reward themselves. But the Republicans’ proposed tax reform is a bigger gift to corporations and the ultra-rich than most had anticipated www.project-syndicate.org
If you look at the numbers, Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America – and it’s not even close. Yet bizarrely, the Democratic party – out of power across the country and increasingly irrelevant – still refuses to embrace him and his message www.theguardian.com
Although the top corporate rate is 35 percent, hardly any company actually pays that. The report, by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning research group in Washington, found that 100 of them — nearly 40 percent — paid no taxes in at least one year between 2008 and 2015 www.nytimes.com
A zoom into what is happening in Washington right now. The key figures populating Donald Trump’s cabinet are not only ultra-rich—they are individuals who made their money knowingly causing harm to the most vulnerable people on this planet, and to the planet itself. It appears to be some sort of job requirement www.thenation.com
By any measure, 2016 was a momentous year, capped by the shocking victory of Donald J. Trump. As his choices for his cabinet were unveiled, a sea change in the path of government policy appeared inevitable. What is less clear is whether Mr. Trump’s proposals will help those who put him in office; the postelection […]
Contrariamente all’opinione dominante diversi analisti hanno invece interpretato la vittoria di Trump come espressione di un voto di protesta contro le élite, l’establishment e la “vecchia politica”
Potrebbe definirsi revisionismo l’insieme di reazioni e giudizi indulgenti che l’elezione di Donald Trump ha suscitato tra politici non di destra e perfino tra intellettuali di sinistra
L’elezione di Trump costituisce l’ennesimo passaggio di una crisi strutturale. Una crisi segnalata dal fatto che entrambi i candidati sono risultati essere i meno graditi di sempre dagli elettori
Some years ago, public intellectual Noam Chomsky warned that the political climate in the US was ripe for the rise of an authoritarian figure. Now, he shares his thoughts on the aftermath of this election, the moribund state of the US political system and why Trump is a real threat to the world and the […]
Abroad, Trump’s unexpected success will only encourage the rise of right-wing nationalist movements and the further fragmentation of this planet of increasing disorder. A deep and spreading sense of disorder lay at the heart of the bizarre election campaign and, with Donald Trump’s election, it may never really end www.opendemocracy.net