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2 weeks ago | 
ukiahdailyjournal.com | Steven Roberts |Steven Roberts
President Trump says he’s “not joking” about possibly running for a third term. But the Constitution clearly forbids such a move. So what’s going on? It’s hard to know what Trump is really thinking. But here is what he’s certainly not joking about: ruling as if all the guardrails designed to restrain presidential power, including the Constitution, do not exist.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
bryantimes.com | Steven Roberts
It’s easy to despise Elon Musk as a supremely loathsome power-mad egomaniac. But he’s also the richest man in the world, and he got that way by immigrating to the United States and seizing the opportunities he found here to foster advanced technologies, from electric vehicles to rockets.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
shorelinemedia.net | Steven Roberts
It’s easy to despise Elon Musk as a supremely loathsome power-mad egomaniac. But he’s also the richest man in the world, and he got that way by immigrating to the United States and seizing the opportunities he found here to foster advanced technologies, from electric vehicles to rockets. Musk knows something about building companies, creating jobs and boosting economic growth.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
ukiahdailyjournal.com | Steven Roberts
It’s a common and correct impression that Donald Trump is a man without principles, but he actually does have one immutable guideline: Anything that helps him, personally or politically, is good. Anything that hurts him is bad. That simple precept explains Trump’s total reversal on the subject of TikTok, the wildly popular social media platform used by about 170 million Americans.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
bryantimes.com | Steven Roberts
Donald Trump has proposed many policies based on faulty assumptions and even outright lies. One of his most misleading falsehoods is his virulent denunciation of immigration. Repeatedly, he’s vowed to deport many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants now living in the United States. But he also shows great hostility toward those attempting legal entry — refugees, asylum-seekers, even high-tech scientists.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
niagara-gazette.com | Steven Roberts
Donald Trump has proposed many policies based on faulty assumptions and even outright lies. One of his most misleading falsehoods is his virulent denunciation of immigration. Repeatedly, he’s vowed to deport many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants now living in the United States. But he also shows great hostility toward those attempting legal entry — refugees, asylum-seekers, even high-tech scientists.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
bryantimes.com | Steven Roberts
The election was a devastating defeat for Democrats. But does it foreshadow an enduring realignment of American politics? Probably not. There’s plenty of evidence that voters chose between two distinctive personal brands: Donald Trump, who they liked, and the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris team, which they did not. If you look at down-ballot races in key states, the Democrats did pretty well. And neither of these brands will ever be on a national ballot again.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
niagara-gazette.com | Steven Roberts
The election was a devastating defeat for Democrats. But does it foreshadow an enduring realignment of American politics? Probably not. There’s plenty of evidence that voters chose between two distinctive personal brands: Donald Trump, who they liked, and the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris team, which they did not. If you look at down-ballot races in key states, the Democrats did pretty well. And neither of these brands — Trump or Biden-Harris — will ever be on a national ballot again.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
niagara-gazette.com | Steven Roberts
Two words dominated the presidential campaign from the beginning to the end: gas and groceries. For all the twists and turns — Joe Biden dropping out, Kamala Harris jumping in, Donald Trump getting shot — the race remained remarkably static. Inflation is always the most damaging issue because it directly affects every family every day, and the rising price of goods during the Biden administration was the single biggest reason Trump won a second term.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bryantimes.com | Steven Roberts
When the megarich owners of the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times spiked editorials endorsing Kamala Harris over Donald Trump, cold shivers and hot anger swept through the ranks of their editors and reporters. Staffers protested that their bosses were hedging their bets, anticipating a Trump victory and protecting their wider business interests against a man who punishes his enemies with vicious vindictiveness.
