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Sunday January 24, 2021 - 03:05:00 PM Several weeks ago, I was invited to participate in my first podcast an event hosted by World BEYOND War. WBW is a global organization devoted to promoting peaceful alternatives to local and geopolitical conflicts. WBW s concerns have been voiced by none other than Martin Sheen, who appears in a number of WBW videos. Here s one example:
Martin Sheen Talks to World Beyond War
The participants (myself included) were all members of the WBW board. They included: Donnal Walter (Arkansas), Odile Hugonot Haber (Michigan), John Reuwer (Vermont), Alice Slater (New York) and our host, Marc Eliot Stein. We were invited to discourse on matters including Trumpism, cultural divides, the Green New Deal, deeper issues and hopeful solutions. The topic was an assessment of the current and imminent state of the USA. (You can listen to the podcast here.)
US institutions after Trump
Jan 23,2021 - Last updated at Jan 23,2021
BOSTON The storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters on January 6 may be remembered as a turning point in American history. The insurrection, incited by the president himself, has raised profound questions about the kind of political institutions future generations will inherit.
Two narratives have come to describe this nadir of an already-tumultuous presidential transition in the United States. The first frames the Capitol insurrection as a singular failure of US institutions, which implies that the solution is to clamp down on right-wing extremists, social-media echo chambers and their mainstream enablers.
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Commentary: After Donald Trump, placing limits on presidency powers an urgent priority Donald Trump’s presidency tested US institutions. And as the US turns a page, it’s timely to reinforce institutions and put limits on the powers of the US president, says Daron Acemoglu.
Then President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021.(Photo: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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BOSTON, Massachusetts: The storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters on Jan 6 may be remembered as a turning point in American history.
Friday, 22 January 2021, 3:37 pm
With the Inauguration of Joseph Biden as the 46th
President of the United States, ex-President Donald Trump
skulked out of Washington D.C. to his Mar-a-Largo golf club
in Florida, all but tarred and feathered and
run-out-on-a-rail in disgrace, after having become the only
American President in history to be impeached twice. In
2021, Trump may yet even have to return to the Capitol to
face charges of malfeasance or treasonous behavior while in
office.
Yet the reality of this scenario need never
have happened if, in a parallel universe, there existed an
America with a different U.S. Constitution, never written by