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“The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” said House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney in her statement announcing that she would vote to impeach President Trump. "Everything that fol

President Joe Biden President Biden has wasted no time in turning his campaign promise to take on the climate challenge into action.  He issued a series of consequential executive orders in the first week of his presidency, punctuated by declaring one of the first days of his administration “Climate Day” at the White House.  Among the executive orders the new president signed are rejoining the Paris Global Climate Agreement and scheduling an Earth Day Summit of world leaders to reassert A...

President-elect Joe Biden When Joe Biden begins his presidency tomorrow, he will do so facing the most daunting set of challenges since FDR took the oath of office during the height of the Great Depression nearly 90 years ago. He inherits a pandemic that is raging out of control and that has already killed nearly 400,000 Americans, a related economic downturn, and a nation polarized politically with an all too real threat of violence from right wing extremists, egged on by the outgoing presiden...

President Donald Trump Through communicating falsehood after falsehood to his supporters in a disgraceful, but unfortunately successful effort to persuade them that the election was stolen and that there was a realistic path to reverse the results, President Trump put the logs and kindling on the fire. This past Wednesday, he lit the match. “In concise summary, on Wednesday the leader of the executive branch incited a crowd to march on the legislative branch,” wrote the Wall Street Journal ...

Tuesday, December 29, 2020   View Larger + For the past 8 years, I’ve written a New Year’s column listing reasons for optimism (click here to see how I did last year)  This year I do the same. It remains the nature of news and opinion writing that positive developments get short shrift. As 2021 is about to begin, 5 reasons for optimism are outlined below: - The end of the Trump Presidency provides an opportunity to heal our nation’s divisions, shore up our democracy and solve the big ...

President Donald Trump About one-in-three Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say that Donald Trump has been “delivering the wrong message since the election" and Joe Biden has been “delivering the right one,” according to a recently released Pew Research Poll.  And in a percentage that is likely to increase as Trump continues to refuse to concede, spreading increasingly farfetched and thoroughly debunked conspiracy theories of voting machines being tampered with to change Tr...

CNN reporting last week from the RI Convention Center Last week, in a live broadcast from Providence’s Convention Center, CNN reported the exploding levels of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations in Rhode Island, as the state achieved the world’s #1 ranking for level of infection, a result that was not unexpected. Governor Raimondo attributed the rising infection rates to her inability to communicate the risks and motivate compliance with health and safety measures, stating at a recent ...

The end of the Trump era is now just weeks away Apparently undeterred by a unanimous defeat in the US Supreme Court and the fact that the Electoral College officially voted for Joe Biden yesterday, predictably ratifying his comfortable 306-232 victory, President Trump continues to plow ahead with his dangerous, if often unintentionally comic effort, to hang on to his office by overturning the will of voters. The president is able to do so with impunity because he continues to be enabled by Repu...

Sunday news shows in RI, Dec. 13, 2020 Staff reports, The Providence Journal Newsmakers (5:30 a.m., Ch. 12; 10 a.m., Ch. 64; 7 p.m., Ch. 64.2) U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Massachusetts Executive Suite (6:30 a.m., Ch. 64; 7:30 a.m., Ch. 64.2; 8 p.m., Ch.12.2) Christian Cowan, center director, Polaris Manufacturing Extension Program; Peter Kaczmarek, president, Mearthane Products Corp. In the Arena (7 a.m., Ch. 6) To be announced. State of the State (8 a.m., Cox Ch. 13, Verizon Ch. 3...