Robert Kuttner
Co-Founder and Co-Editor at The American Prospect
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1 week ago |
prospect.org | Robert Kuttner
Donald Trump is besieged on several fronts. His Ukraine policy has failed, as has his alliance with Putin and his foray against China. His tariff bluffs are backfiring, making it hard for U.S. manufacturers, importers, and consumers to plan. His executive excesses are mostly being overturned by the courts.
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1 week ago |
prospect.org | Robert Kuttner
Winston Churchill is said to have observed that you can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else. That could be said of Harvard’s president Alan Garber, who kept trying to appease President Trump until he finally appreciated that appeasement only invited more extreme demands. So Garber became something of a hero, in spite of himself. At Harvard’s commencement on May 29, the university managed a rare moment of unity.
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1 week ago |
prospect.org | Robert Kuttner
New York’s mayoralty race is increasingly becoming a proxy for the national debate over what Democrats should stand for. Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist who now stands a better than even chance of beating Andrew Cuomo, has come up with just the right one-line slogan for Democrats: The cost of living is killing working-class New Yorkers. That’s true not just of New Yorkers.
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2 weeks ago |
prospect.org | Robert Kuttner
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have one thing on common, beyond their penchant for illegal one-man rule. They are both masters at the uses of distraction. Is the schoolyard brawl with Elon Musk an embarrassment and Trump’s Ukraine policy of cultivating Vladimir Putin an abject failure? Invade LA. Is Gaza a humanitarian and logistical nightmare, and are the ultra-Orthodox parties in Netanyahu’s coalition on the verge of bringing down the government? Make war on Iran.
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2 weeks ago |
prospect.org | Robert Kuttner
In February, President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, pending a review. This week, enforcement was partly reinstated, but drastically narrowed. That brought back some personal memories. As an investigator for Wisconsin's great progressive senator, William Proxmire, in the 1970s, I was responsible for developing two pieces of landmark legislation—the Community Reinvestment Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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