Bitcoin, billionaires, and Trump

Donald Trump is assembling a government of the ultra-rich whose collective wealth is estimated at $344.4 billion, nearly 3,000 times greater than that of Joe Biden’s cabinet.  So how did an incoming administration go from populism to hyper-oligarchy in the blink of an eye? The reasons are many.  One...

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Meltdown

Daniel Lazare12.08.24More than four weeks after Donald Trump’s election victory, it is increasingly clear where America is heading: toward militarization and authoritarian rule.Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, Sebastian GorkaTrump’s strong-man tendencies have long been evident.  Although largely forgotten, he repeatedly accused Democrats of...

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The crisis of Democracy and the 2024 elections

by Dan Lazare10.18.24The one safe prediction we can make about the upcoming presidential election is that it can only result in a further intensification of the crisis of US democracy. George Washington presiding over the Constitutional ConventionThis is not Marxist boiler-plate in which bourgeois democracy is always bankrupt...

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Cheering on Trump

by Daniel Lazare 01.13.25When word got out last week that Chris Cutrone was writing an article about Donald Trump’s threats against Canada and Greenland, it seemed reasonable to assume that the Platypus founder would open up with both barrels.  After all, the Platypus Affiliated Society, with its many student clubs...

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