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In the article, the author discusses the 2024 U.S. presidential elections and its major candidates, Joe Biden of the Democratic Party and the Republicans' Donald Trump. Also cited are the reasons why Trump is not qualified to become president like his racist attitude, corruption, and election denial, the accomplishments and failures of Biden as president, as well as how the mainstream media is allegedly cowed by Trump's antics.

The article looks at history of the American attitude towards Israel/Palestine relation. It mentions the current situation in Israel and Palestine, the changing attitudes towards Israel among Americans, the support Israel receives from various groups, and the historical context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as of January 2023. It suggests solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that provides Palestinians with self-determination and collective dignity.

The article discusses alleged false equivalence in the press coverage of the 2016 U.S. campaign for president, including the newspaper the "New York Times'" coverage of the Republican (GOP) presidential candidate Donald Trump's and Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton's and Bernie Sanders' rhetoric. The influence that the American political radical right-wing has on the press's coverage of politics is discussed.

An interview with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is presented. Topics covered include de Blasio's personal approach and focus on economic inequality, his experience of working as a special assistant to former deputy mayor Bill Lynch, and his views with regards to being a movement leader and the mayor of New York City. Mayor de Blasio also talks about the status of progressive movement in New York, the Whiskey Rebellion, and capital spending.

Speaking from the audience, Todd proceeded to make the kind of subtle arguments about the New Left's mixed legacy that the conference's speakers had refused to see. And as his friends, admirers, and even his adversaries learned during Todd's 60-some years of activism and argument, you could count on him whenever you wanted answers about either. I MET TODD GITLIN THE WEEKEND OF OCTOBER 17, 1987. [Extracted from the article]

COLUMNS I'VE BEEN WRITING A VERSION OF THIS COLUMN IN JUST about every other issue of The Nation for nearly 25 years. Many in the media have recently awoken to the myriad ways in which the Trump presidency has sought to murder our democracy. Many in the media have recently awoken to the myriad ways the Trump presidency has sought to murder our democracy. [Extracted from the article]

J Street, a nonprofit advocacy group that describes itself as "pro-Israel, pro-peace", commissioned exit polling of Jewish voters and found a 77-21 percent preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. Also, just 5 percent of Jews chose "Israel" as their first or second most important issue - and, being Jews, they disagree on that topic, too. Another group that appears OK with the anti-Semitism-for-pro-Israelism trade-off, alas, is Israeli Jews, among whom Trump's 70-13 percent polling matches his support among evangelicals. [Extracted from the article]

The article profiles New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, as of 2013. It says he espouses a mix of progressive and conservative views and notes some have summarized his political views as "socially progressive economic conservative" (SPEC), citing his support for gun control, same-sex marriage, and addressing global warming on the one hand and his efforts to cut taxes on the wealthy and reduce state government spending on the other. Topics include comparisons to his father, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, his effectiveness in working with the state legislature, and his receipt of political contributions from conservative businessman David Koch.

The author discusses the media coverage of the 2012 U.S. presidential election, and argues that trivial, misleading stories about Republican talking points are more common than substantive reporting. News media such as Fox News television channel, multimedia news organization Politico, and "The New York Times" newspaper are discussed, as well as coverage of political figures such as Donald Trump, Condoleezza Rice, and George Pataki. Media ethics and presidential nominees Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are discussed, and the nominees' debates are described. Vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan are also mentioned.

The article looks at the likely results of a win by presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the 2012 U.S. presidential election in several policy areas, based on Romney's statements and the policy proposals of Republican members of the U.S. Congress. With respect to economy policy, the author predicts significant tax cuts for wealthy households, the removal of tax provisions benefiting the working poor, and weaker banking regulation. He says the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," may be repealed, raising the number of the uninsured. Other areas discussed include public education, U.S. Supreme Court appointments, immigration policy, foreign policy, and the environment.

The article looks at the "Washington Post" newspaper and its right-wing conservative political blogger, Jennifer Rubin. It recounts instances where she published false information, failed to make timely corrections, and engaged in vitriolic ad hominem attacks on those who disagreed with her views, including her posts on the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway and the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit by his Palestinian captors. The author discusses the Post's hiring and retention of Rubin in the context of what he sees as its institutional decline, arguing that it no longer shows journalistic concern for evidence and objectivity.

The article presents a profile of American rock musician Bruce Springsteen. It recounts his personal life history and outlines his career as a recording artist and performer. The political and social beliefs that underpin his lyrics and their relationship with political events, leaders, and trends in the U.S. beginning in the 1970s are analyzed. Also discussed are persistent themes such as economic distress and instances when his lyrics were misinterpreted, most famously with the song "Born in the USA." Topics include musical influences such as Woody Guthrie, his concerts in support of Democratic nominee John Kerry in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and his album "Wrecking Ball," released in March 2012.

In this article the author discusses ways in which to mend democracy in the United States. He notes that the system as it is currently constituted needs to be fairer, the role of money should be reduced, and the press and politicians made aware of ideology and ignorance. A number of topics are addressed including the false hopes of the 2008 election of president Barack Obama, the Supreme Court and the decision to grant to corporations rights as humans, and the dysfunction in the nation's senate.

The article discusses Israel, its 60th birthday, and the opinions of Israeli writers and intellectuals concerning the development of that nation. The author offers his account of returning to the country after a 20-year absence, and his surprise to see how a high-technology, globalized Israel replaced the old collectivist country. The author analyzes the opinions of the writers David Broza, Aluf Benn, and filmmaker Amos Gitai concerning Israel's progress.

The article reports that mainstream media journalists such as Jake Tapper of "Salon" magazine, R. W. Apple, Jr. of the "New York Times," Fareed Zakaria of "Newsweek," and Chris Matthews of MSNBC's television show "Hardball," have all fallen under the spell of the maverick U.S. presidential candidate John McCain. With this assistance from the press, McCain's extreme politics and changing positions are not emphasized in his news coverage.

An excerpt is presented from the book "Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America," by Eric Alterman.

COLUMNS You'd have had to be some kind of evil genius to imagine something as terrible for the world as Facebook. David Thiel, a former Facebook security engineer quoted in the Post, said, "The value of being in favor with people in power outweighs almost every other concern for Facebook." Zuckerberg also attended a secret dinner with Trump, Jared Kushner, and the right-wing entrepreneur and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel. [Extracted from the article]

Trump's Deadly "Bullshit" Dale might as well have been speaking about a recent egregious New York Times headline, "Crit¬icized for Coronavirus Response, Trump Points to Obama Administration." Moreover, Baker and Crowley invited Trump and his defenders to slander and lie about both the Democrats and reporters in order to further the adminis¬tration's campaign of potentially lethal medical misinfor¬mation. [Extracted from the article]

But as New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg observed, "Trump's weaponized disinformation" is proving "corrosive to democracy" regardless of its target, because it has eroded "the political salience of reality". Unlike Bill Clinton's December 1998 impeachment, which, Baker wrote, "felt like the ultimate drama, so intense that the rest of the world seemed to have stopped spinning on its axis", the Trump version inspires "less suspense" and has "an outcome seemingly foreordained." Judging Trump's impeachment as if it were a reality TV program was just another Republican trap into which too many journalists eagerly jumped. [Extracted from the article]

Politically speaking, former New York mayor and 77-year-old billionaire Michael Bloomberg is in nowheresville, polling around 5 percent and with the highest negative ratings of anyone in the Democratic presidential primary. But that perception is wrong: Bloomberg was a terrible mayor, especially for the city's non-wealthy residents. According to a long review by The New York Times, "the standstill… was largely attributable to the design and execution of the [disaster recovery] program by the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg". [Extracted from the article]

The author discusses social media site Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's beliefs on blatant lying about his past, and on hijacking the memory of U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., a common quality he has with U.S. President Donald Trump in 2019. Topics covered include Facebook's generation of profits from lies of deceitful politicians', and Zuckerberg's interests in keeping his followers happy and Trump in power. Also noted is Facebook's development into a destructive force.

The article discusses the mainstream U.S. media's normalizing what the author considers the extraordinarily poor rhetoric and abnormal behavior of President Donald Trump. The newspaper "The New York Times" editor Dean Baquet's headline, including the author's belief that it did not sufficiently highlight Trump's putative racism, is discussed.

The article discusses the U.S. President Donald Trump's rhetoric, considered anti-Semitic by the author, on the loyalty of liberal American Jews, referencing U.S. neoconservatives' (neocons') similar rhetoric towards American Jews who support liberalism. Trump's pro-Israel policies, including his support of right-wing Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, are discussed. An overview of the periodical "Commentary's" negative comments on the political activity of liberal American Jews is provided.

The author expresses views on the relationship between the mainstream media and the Democratic and Republican parties, and how this affects legislative and electoral success in the U.S. Topics discussed include the impact of the Democrats' trust in the media according to political adviser Paul Begala, the Fox News sponsorship of the first Republican presidential primary debate in 2015, and the health-care policy debate from the perspective of journalist Margaret Sullivan.

The article discusses the U.S. mass media's debate over whether the U.S. President Donald Trump's invective, racist tweet were a distraction within the context of their alleged minimal coverage of U.S. government policy under Trump. Trump's deregulatory policies toward business, including eliminating labor protections, are discussed.

Examines the impact of President George W. Bush's administration on freedom of the press in the U.S. Claim that Bush does not read the work of journalists, and prefers to rely on his staff for current information; View that the Bush administration interferes with the functions of the press by deliberately withholding information or producing false and biased reports; Discussion of a perceived increase in secrecy in the Bush administration following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; Accusation that Bush and members of his administration lie to the press to support their policies; Scandal surrounding the release of biased news reports by the Bush administration; Impact of the Bush administration's treatment of journalists on U.S. political culture.

The author argues that presidents should never lie. Presidential dishonesty, like so many things in life, is not what it used to be. Before the 1960s, few could even imagine that a President would deliberately mislead them on matters so fundamental as war and peace. When the evidence of presidential lying grew so enormous the phenomenon could no longer be avoided, its revelation helped force both Lyndon Johnson and his successor, Richard Nixon, out of the office. From the standpoint of personal political consequences, the act of purposeful deception by an American President depends almost entirely on the context in which it occurs. With few exceptions, Presidents lie largely for reasons of political convenience. The decisions to lie were bred of a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the practice of American democracy. American Presidents have no choice but to practice the diplomacy of Great Power politics, but American citizens have rarely if ever been asked to understand the world in those terms. Walter Lippmann believed mass political consciousness does not pertain to the actual environment but to an intermediary "pseudoenvironment" which is complicated by the manner in which it is perceived. Even those Presidents with the best of intentions come to view deception as an unavoidable consequence of a system that simply cannot integrate the unpleasant realities of international diplomacy. Whether this situation is remediable depends on one of two possibilities: Either future Presidents become convinced that the long-term cost of deception outweighs its short-term benefits, or the public matures to the point of seeking to educate itself about the need for complicated arrangements in international politics that do not comport with the nation's caricatured notion of itself as an innocent and benevolent force throughout the world.

The article presents a discussion of the relationship between politics and media in the U.S., adapted from the book "What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News," by Eric Alterman.

The article focuses on how European nations perceive the United States and its foreign policies. The author pointed out that Europe is increasingly becoming anti-American. The newspaper "Le Monde," from France has described the Middle East policies of U.S. President George W. Bush as extraordinary, unjust and arrogant, while the British newspaper "Mirror," announced that the United States has become the world's leading rogue state. The 2002 State of the Union address of President Bush, which cited the formulation of a so-called Axis of Evil against which all civilized nations must ally themselves, was heavily criticized by European governments.

This article focuses on the comparison between the different candidates for the post of the President of the United States. The author says that it has become fashionable of late to deny the relative importance of politics, on the one hand, and the fact of any important differences between Democrats and Republicans, on the other. Elections, therefore, are said to be merely another form of entertainment-on a par with, say, professional wrestling, but only marginally more consequential. proverbial trees. While both major candidates use much the same rhetoric to offer feel-good appeals to centrist and undecided voters, beneath this veneer lie important political and philosophical distinctions with crucial implications for social, economic, environmental and even foreign policy.

This article focuses on the political issues in the U.S. George W. Bush has raised the stakes for Election 2000 by calling for the privatization of social security. He claims it is needed because, without reform, social security will go belly up by the middle of the century. Polls show that young Americans fear that social security won't be there for them. The U.S. Congress over-whelmingly authorized a record $309.9 billion for the Defense Department, $4.5 billion more than the President requested and $21.1 billion above last year. Pathetically, an amendment to put some pressure on the Pentagon brass to rein in waste with a 1 percent reduction in procurement and research and development was rejected 331 to 88.

The article discusses the return of the Republican Party members as the majority in both houses of U.S. Congress. It also discusses the reasons behind its dominance during the midterm elections which include slim voter turnout during midterm elections due to population distribution, undercutting the democratic process such as the use of dark money funds, and adoption of tedious registration rules. Also discussed is the fringe constitutional theory known as nullification.

In March 2014, as the Republican presidential primary was still in what pundits call its "beauty contest" phase, Adelson summoned the contestants to the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas to have them parade their ideological wares, as each sought to leave with the multimillion-dollar contributions he planned to bestow. A living, breathing advertisement for strong campaign finance legislation as well as catnip for anti- Semitic conspiracy mongers, Adelson spent more than a half-billion dollars on Republican candidates between 2012 and 2021. Doubling down: In less than 10 years, Sheldon Adelson spent nearly a half-billion dollars on GOP candidates. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the involvement of various foundation associations to books covering political issues. Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and her husband, Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom, would like to thank the John M. Olin Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Earhart Foundation and the Carthage Foundation for help in funding their anti-affirmative action tome "America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible." Tamar Jacoby, also a Manhattan Institute denizen, is indebted to the John M. Olin Foundation, the Joyce Foundation and the Smith Richardson Foundation for the financial help they gave her in writing "Someone Else's House: America's Unfulfilled Struggle for Integration."

This article presents information on various socio-political developments in the U.S. With turnout all-important in the fall elections, who wins is largely a matter of who inspires people to vote. In Illinois, it could be Jan Schakowsky, a veteran Citizen Action activist running for the seat vacated by Democrat Sidney Yates. In California, Lois Capps and George Brown, both fending off right-wing challenges to hold on to Democratic seats, and in Wisconsin, Tammy Baldwin, a gay labor supporter facing a bitter fight to replace retiring Republican Scott Kiug. The brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old Wyoming student who was spread-eagled on a fence, bludgeoned and left to die in freezing temperatures, is only the latest and most visible manifestation of the national plague of gay-bashing. Twelve percent of hate crimes reported to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation are antigay, and many more are unreported because of victims' fear and law-enforcement homophobia.

Investigates the involvement of lieutenant colonel Oliver North of the U.S. who was allowed to be involved in the U.S. foreign policy for last six years despite his erratic judgment, self-delusion and outright lies. Identification of the works of North during his stint with the U.S. foreign policy makers; Background information on North; Observations regarding the inability of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to gather information about the behavior of North.

This article focuses on the U.S. President Bill Clinton's trip to China, which will help ease the Asian nuclear weapons crisis. There's no doubt that China's role as arms merchant helped fuel the India-Pakistan conflict-as did Beijing's years of bluster toward and confrontation with New Delhi. But ever since its 1997 Party Congress, China has played a more responsible regional role. Beijing has put aside its confrontational stance toward Taiwan and toward its Southwest Asian neighbors over disputed China Sea claims.

In this article, authors shares their views regarding various political issues related to different parts of the world. The recent detonation by India of five underground nuclear tests in two days is a world-changing event. And it compels attention to an inescapable question that the nuclear powers have done their best, in the seven years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Excluding Gaza, the Palestinian Authority now controls 3 percent of the West Bank and shares control with Israel of another 24 percent. During the Oslo talks the Palestinian negotiators, according to then, Israeli negotiator Yossi Beilin, asked for an agreement that would turn over 65 percent of the disputed areas before the final-status talks began, while the Israelis preferred to keep the number closer to 50 percent.

The article presents information on various issues related to the U.S. Despite U.S. President Bill Clinton's claims to the contrary, there is as much of a "Scramble for Africa" now as there was during colonial or cold war times. Now, though, the scramble is for Africa's huge undeveloped markets and vast energy reserves rather than for slaves and coffee plantations or military bases and ideological beachheads. The latest statistics on AIDS and black Americans are grim. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, in 1997 African- Americans made up more than half, of all new cases of HIV infection.

The article presents information on political events around the world. There are scandals galore in Washington. On March 20, while much of Washington awaited the latest filing in the Paula Jones case, the Center for Responsive Politics released a report disclosing that special interests are spending the titanic amount of $l.2 billion a year to lobby Congress. The story that appeared almost word-for-word in "The New York Times," the day after the Bertelsmann/Random House merger with one slight difference. It wasn't about books but about bombs. The merger in question was that of weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp.

This article presents information about politics. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has returned from Baghdad, Iraq with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's written commitment to provide immediate unrestricted, unconditional access for the UNSCOM weapons inspectors to all suspect sites in Iraq. U.S. President Bill Clinton and his national security team should be first in line to express their gratitude to Annan. A High Court in the U.S. allowed Paula Jones's civil suit of sexual misconduct against Clinton to proceed rather than grant the delay until the end of his term that the President and his lawyers sought.

The article presents information on bill related to campaign finance reform. When the U.S. Congress comes back from its February recess, it is scheduled to rerun another episode of Campaign Finance Reform Turns. The U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats had deadlocked on the issue in October, with the Democrats managing to inconvenience majority leader enough that he promised to hold a full debate by March 6. Campaign finance reform is not going to happen until incumbents believe that there's a high price to pay for saying no to reform.

This article presents information on the international relations between the U.S. and Russia during the year 1998 as a result of the Gulf War. The Russian President Boris Yeltsin warned that a U.S. attack on Iraq could provoke World War III. The U.S. considered a nuclear attack during the Gulf War as was professed by General George Lee Butler, former Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command. Consideration of the option was a closely held secret at the highest levels of the Pentagon and White House. The U.S. nuclear policy directive reported in December 1998 explicitly allows for a nuclear strike against a so-called rogue state threatening the use of chemical or biological weapons-a significant departure from past policy.

This article presents the author's views on the political situation in the United States. The day the U.S. President Bill Clinton released his latest budget proposal it was easy to marvel at his ability to survive. As he celebrated the first zero-deficit budget in nearly three decades, official Washington scratched its collective head over a President whose popularity shoots up while he's ensnared in tawdry scandal. Indeed, the President's budgeteering has an appealing ring. Money for daycare and schools. Protecting Social Security Bashing the tobacco gang. More money for scientific research. Closing tax loopholes for corporations. Just saying no to turning the projected surplus into tax breaks for the rich.

This article presents information about politics. The State of the Union Message displayed U.S. President Bill Clinton at the top of his game, for better or worse. Clinton invited the country to address the challenges of the next century. He said that he would raise the minimum wage, extend Medicare, police health insurance companies, provide for more daycare, build schools, pay for more teachers and smaller classes, and support green technology and medical research. Clinton has in many ways richly earned his present predicament: not necessarily for whatever turn out to be the particulars of his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky but because of the family-values hypocrisy of the man and his prevarications and semantic pirouettes on so many issues.

It is informed that nearly eight years have passed since the fall of the Berlin wall and till now the foreign policy establishment is in a funny position. No matter what is being proclaimed by Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, foreign policy is going to be driven by a combination of job considerations, bond-market nervousness, global corporate investment policies and racial and ethnic strong-arm lobbying. The lack of attention to foreign policy issues is lamentable. While the traditional issues may have lost their luster, problems of free trade, globalization, environmental desecration and cultural conflict play a key role in determining the quality of life for workers and communities.