by William D. Hartung | Jan 22, 2026 | Donald Trump, Latin America, Op-Ed, Regime Change, Trump Administration, Venezuela, War
The Trump administration’s exercise in armed regime change in Venezuela should have come as no surprise. The U.S. naval buildup in the Caribbean and the attacks on defenseless boats off the Venezuelan coast — based on unproven allegations that they contained drug traffickers — had been underway for more than three months. By the end of December 2025, in fact, such strikes on boats near Venezuela…
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by Nolan Higdon | Jan 21, 2026 | Dissent, Donald Trump, Fascism, history, ICE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Nazi Germany, Nazis, News Analysis, Policing, Renee Nicole Good, Trump Administration
“For the last decade, there’s been a debate among people who don’t like Donald Trump about whether he’s a fascist,” writes Michelle Goldberg in a January 2026 New York Times article. This rhetoric, which began during his first term, reached a fever pitch during the 2024 campaign when Hillary Clinton compared his Madison Square Garden rally to the infamous Nazi gathering held there in the 1930s.
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by Amir Khafagy | Jan 21, 2026 | Department of Labor, Deregulation, Immigrants, labor, National Labor Relations Board, News, NIOSH, NLRB, OSHA, Trump Administration, Worker Safety, Workplace Safety
One year into President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, workers’ rights advocates are sounding the alarm on the erosion of workplace safety laws. A recent report published by Good Jobs First, a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability, found that under the second Trump Administration, there has been a significant drop in the federal…
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by Emily Sanders | Jan 21, 2026 | American Petroleum Institute, Big Oil, Climate Crisis, Fossil Fuels, News, Oil, Republicans, Trump Administration
One of the U.S. oil lobby’s top priorities for 2026 will be trying to put an end to the growing number of state laws and lawsuits that could make fossil fuel companies pay billions for their role in the climate crisis. The plans to “protect” oil companies from “abusive state climate lawsuits” were laid out in a policy agenda from the American Petroleum Institute, the largest oil and gas trade…
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by Silky Shah | Jan 20, 2026 | Abolition, Alien Enemies Act, CECOT, Deportation, Deportations, Donald Trump, Guantánamo Bay, ICE, Immigrant Jails, mass deportation, mass deportations, Migrant Jails, Minneapolis, Op-Ed, Renee Nicole Good, Resistance, Trump Administration
Donald Trump’s return to the White House in 2025 has been a nightmare for immigrants and for the country. The administration’s mass detention and deportation agenda brought forth an onslaught of cruel, violent policies intended to sow fear, suppress dissent, and vilify immigrants. Taking stock of all of Trump’s actions on immigration in 2025 is nearly impossible. This is, of course, by design.
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by Derek Seidman | Jan 20, 2026 | AI, Banks, big tech, Billionaires, Cryptocurrency, data centers, Deregulation, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Fossil Fuels, News Analysis, Palantir, Private Equity, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Trump Administration, Venezuela, Wall Street
The first year of Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president has been a most profitable one for the Trump family and its inner circle. By now, much has been reported about the web of conflicts — the unapologetic ethical morass — that defines the second Trump administration and the Trump family’s cryptocurrency ventures, foreign business deals, military contracts, and more.
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