Joe Conason

New York

Editor-in-Chief at The National Memo

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Articles

The Big Fool Says to Push On -- Better Yet, Push Back Against Him

6 days ago | miamiherald.com | Joe Conason

Donnie Trump — what a joker, huh? Remember his promise to end Russia’s war against Ukraine on Day One of his presidency? No joke, he bragged: “It’ll be done within 24 hours. You watch.”Well, here we are at Day One Hundred, with the war still raging. So, President Donald Trump either lied ... or failed. But The Donald had a Joker up his sleeve — he now claims that “when I said (Day One) it was in jest.”Horsefeathers.
Suffer the little children, at Kennedy's whim

2 weeks ago | newsitem.com | Joe Conason

Conducting his first press conference as secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved swiftly to demonstrate yet again why he is so unfit for that critical cabinet post.
Suffer The Little Children, At Kennedy's Whim

3 weeks ago | okobserver.org | Joe Conason

Conducting his first press conference as secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved swiftly to demonstrate yet again why he is so unfit for that critical cabinet post.
Suffer The Little Children, At Kennedy's Whim By Joe Conason

3 weeks ago | democraticunderground.com | Joe Conason

Suffer The Little Children, At Kennedy's Whim By Joe Conason In one of many egocentric abuses of his newfound power, Kennedy has directed his department's resources away from vital research on cancer and Alzheimer's, among other major diseases, initiating instead a massive effort to discover an environmental cause of autism which reflects his own obsession more than sound science.
Suffer The Little Children, At Kennedy’s Whim

3 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Joe Conason

Conducting his first press conference as secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved swiftly to demonstrate yet again why he is so unfit for that critical cabinet post.
At First Press Conference, Kennedy Enrages Autism Families With Falsehoods

4 weeks ago | nationalmemo.com | Joe Conason

Conducting his first press conference as secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. moved swiftly to demonstrate yet again why he is so unfit for that critical cabinet post.
At First HHS Press Conference, Kennedy Enrages Autism Families With Falsehoods

4 weeks ago | autism.einnews.com | Joe Conason

Conducting his first press conference as secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. moved swiftly to demonstrate yet again why he is so unfit for that critical cabinet post.
Trump's about-face on tariffs was not some part of a brilliant plan

1 month ago | alternet.org | Joe Conason

Does anyone believe that Donald Trump brilliantly planned the abrupt reversal of his “recriprocal” tariff barrage? Leaving aside the most zombified MAGA cultists, and those who are paid or otherwise induced to pretend to believe whatever the president says, the answer is no. But that may not be the right question to ask in the wake of his vaunted policy’s overnight collapse.
Absolute power brings economic catastrophe

1 month ago | newsitem.com | Joe Conason

Everyone should have known what was about to happen when Donald Trump announced huge global tariffs under the slogan "Make America Wealthy Again." Like "Make America Healthy Again," which accompanied the return of deadly measles, the cheery tagline for Trump's trade war foretold ruin - which has arrived at warp speed. Within hours, the global markets wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth from the balance sheets of retirement accounts and pension plans as well as banks and corporations.
Brilliant Tariff Strategy Or Market Manipulation? We Report, You Decide

1 month ago | nationalmemo.com | Joe Conason

Does anyone believe that Donald Trump brilliantly planned the abrupt reversal of his “recriprocal” tariff barrage? Leaving aside the most zombified MAGA cultists, and those who are paid or otherwise induced to pretend to believe whatever the president says, the answer is no. But that may not be the right question to ask in the wake of his vaunted policy’s overnight collapse.