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There has been no coherent national strategy for dealing with this crisis. Normally that would come from a coherent president. Once the coronavirus left China, there was nothing we could have done as a nation to prevent a pandemic. Tragically, because of Donald Trump we have an out-of-control pandemic.
This crisis has shed light on a number of our country’s serious problems.
This week on The Al Franken Podcast: The host (and former member of the Senate Education Committee) and the president of the National Education Association, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, talks about an important subject: how awful Betsy DeVos is. But also, education.
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The host (and former member of the Senate Education Committee) and the president of the National Education Association talks about an important subject: how awful Betsy DeVos is. But also, education. Subscribe to The Al Franken Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google Play, YouTube or wherever you get your…
The NYT columnist and Nobel Prize winner discusses how Republicans operate in bad faith on issues like climate, tax cuts, deficits, income and wealth inequality, and now, the pandemic.
People have been saying I wasn’t myself when I talked with Don Lemon last night on CNN. They are right. George Floyd was needlessly murdered by MPD in what has become a pattern of racist and violent policing in Minneapolis. This comes on the heels of the killing of Breonna…
There are people who say that there are people
who say that Joe Scarborough murdered a staffer with whom he was having an affair.
Donald Trump puts children in cages.
There are people who say that there are people
who say that Ted Cruz’s father was a part of the…
Before President Trump offered the insanely stupid (and I do not mean that sarcastically) idea of injecting disinfectants into our bodies to treat Covid-19, a good majority of Americans had already concluded that Trump is not providing the wise, measured leadership of, say, a Lincoln or an FDR. Leadership has…
