Bob Dreyfuss

2 months ago | njdemocrat.substack.com | Bob Dreyfuss

Here’s what’s coming down the pike, New Jersey – or the parkway, if you prefer. The Trump administration and Congress are planning a $4.5 billion tax cut for the superrich. They’ll be slashing life-saving budgets and state aid, further putting the screws to the state. And the state we live in, New Jersey, is already facing what NJ.com tells us is “a $3.7 billion structural [budget] deficit” that could eat up half of our surplus.

2 months ago | thenation.com | Bob Dreyfuss

February 3, 2025 Can Trump Make a Deal With Iran? More likely, things will unravel quickly, with war on the horizon. Ad Policy Newspapers inn Tehran, Iran, report that Donald Trump has officially taken office as president of United States, on January 21, 2025. (Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Getty Images) In 2025, President Trump will unavoidably be forced to confront a multilayered crisis in US-Iran relations.

Nov 20, 2024 | washingtonspectator.org | Bob Dreyfuss

A pair of books released weeks before the election, written by key players in the post-2016 investigation of Donald Trump’s multiple ties to Russia, brings our attention back to something that Republicans say is a hoax and Democrats seem all too ready to forget: that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin apparently has leverage over the Manhattan billionaire and felon.

Nov 5, 2024 | thenation.com | Bob Dreyfuss

November 5, 2024 Pennsylvania’s Undecided Voters Might Swing This Election In an election in which polls have recorded a swing-state dead heat between Harris and Trump, even a tiny number might be enough to tilt the final result. Ad Policy A volunteer cuts out stickers outside of a satellite polling station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela / Getty Images)This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com.

Oct 31, 2024 | fairobserver.com | Bob Dreyfuss

If you’re like many of my friends, I know what you’re thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? And there’s a slightly less common corollary to that: I mean, really, who are these people who say that they’re undecided? Who doesn’t know enough to know which way they’re going to vote?