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Working toward harmonious world

This year’s National Day of Racial Healing, sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, emphasized the importance of children growing up in supportive communities that nurture their talents and stimulate their desire to learn in school. In a short video presentation, the foundation’s president and CEO, La June Montgomery Tabron, discussed how all children deserve to live their lives free from “racism, discrimination and bias” and that they should grow up in a “just world” where “everyone can succeed.” In reflecting on her comments, I thought about how children view the ...

What Trump describes as an ‘energy emergency’

Oil and gas production in the United States is hitting record highs, easily outpacing consumption growth and fueling an export boom that in 2020 achieved the country’s first trade surplus in energy since at least the 1950s. Renewable energy generation has also expanded at a healthy clip, more than four times as fast during Joe Biden’s presidency as during Donald Trump’s first term. Also, the price of gasoline has been falling steadily since mid-2022, following an upsurge at the tail end of the pandemic. This is what Trump describes as an “ energy emergency.” One executive ...

The press cannot help itself

The American press corps covers Republican presidential administrations very differently from Democratic presidential administrations and covers Donald Trump’s administration differently from everything. To the press, Donald Trump is a bad man — a would-be authoritarian tyrant. Therefore, any policy is presumed to be bad, and it will be covered by highlighting victims. That can lead to farce. In his first day in office, the President, Trump, not Biden (hallelujah), signed an executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. At the end of his ...

Tragic irony in the rotunda

Donald Trump won the whole Monopoly game. He never went directly to jail and always passed go. Timid Merrick Garland, the attorney general, was no match and didn’t even buy a railroad. The Big Tech money boys were literally behind Trump, in obsequious unity as he was sworn in as president Monday at high noon in the Capitol rotunda. The leaders of X, Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Tim Cook — crammed into the grand sacred space under the dome of the U.S. Capitol. Statues and murals of truly great presidents, heroes of ...

They gave Trump center, he took it

Donald Trump stood at the center of American politics — in both senses — when he was inaugurated in the U.S. Capitol on Monday afternoon. Pretty much everything of import in national affairs will revolve around Trump for the foreseeable future, and he’s managed, in many respects, to occupy the political and cultural center. Trump’s critics have long insisted that he be shunned and not “normalized.” Did someone tell Carrie Underwood, who performed “America the Beautiful” at the inauguration (spontaneously going a cappella when there was a snafu with the accompanying ...

NPR uses lame ‘no evidence’ card

Even on Inauguration Day, you can count on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio to act like a hive of Democrats. It’s not surprising. As longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner reported last year, he investigated D.C. voting records and found “87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans.” On “Morning Edition” before Donald Trump was sworn in, co-host Leila Fadel interviewed Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.). After some milder opening questions, Fadel turned to revenge: “President-elect Trump did promise dozens of times on the campaign trail that his ...