Kenneth Roth
@KenRoth
Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now senior fellow, Yale University (Law and Jackson). My book: "Righting Wrongs" (Knopf/Allen Lane).
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Trump's key aide, Stephen Miller, is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US, using tactics that are cruel, racist and, in some cases, flout federal law.
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Thanks to Trump, a new poll finds that Canadians, Indonesians, Brazilians, Turks, Mexicans and others all see the United States as more of a “major threat” than either Russia or China.
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Trump’s bullying forced Canada to seek a closer partnership with Europe. Now Trump tries to bully Europe not to proceed under threat of tariffs. It’s scary that such a juvenile person is the world’s most powerful official.
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On an index that tracks press freedom in 180 countries, America under Trump now ranks at its lowest since the index started — 64th, just above Panama and just below Botswana.
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Support for Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza and imposes apartheid in the West Bank has become an albatross for Democrats. Voters no longer share Washington's blind support for Israel regardless of its criminal conduct.
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"Settler terrorists supported by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government are committing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank," British foreign secretary Ed Miliband says, "in the UK’s starkest condemnation since the foundation of the Israeli state."
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Leave it to Trump to celebrate the victory of a far-right German party that shows sympathy for the Nazis, downplays the Holocaust, and flirts with Putin.
Trump's IRS is evidently no longer about ensuring that rich people pay their fair share of taxes and now is about preventing universities from having targeted programs to benefit racial or other minorities.
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The US and Iran are now battling over the Strait of Hormuz, which wasn't an issue before Trump's war of choice. Meanwhile, Iran's nuclear program is unrestrained because Trump ripped up the Obama accord and abandoned later negotiations in his rush to war.
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Until Trump's counterproductive war of choice with Iran, the Strait of Hormuz was open. Since then, "there have been at least 71 attacks on ships..., and 19 sailors have been killed." Was Trump's abandonment of the nuclear negotiations worth it?
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What an utter embarrassment. Can you believe this guy is president of the United States?
Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania have died from measles, as a large outbreak there continues to spread. Yet Trump’s “health” secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., keeps spreading unfounded fear about the safety of vaccines.
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At home and abroad, people are learning that the best way to respond to Trump's bullying is to resist. Appeasement only encourages more bullying.
Canada sees Trump's America as "a pseudo-democratic fiscal basketcase of a nation, whose only apparent foreign policy objective has become domination for the gratification of its president’s slapdash vanity."
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Because of King Trump's callous self-serving reign, even traditionally Republican states are now in play as Democrats contemplate retaking not only the House but also the Senate.
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A series of moves by Donald Trump’s administration to sow doubt about the integrity of US elections have intensified concern among voting experts that Trump could declare a national emergency to avoid a Republican midterm wipeout.
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Republicans are good for the economy? Trump has "led" America to $40 trillion in debt, 6.7% mortgages, and $5 per gallon of diesel fuel. But Trump is a LOT richer, so he is happy.
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Desperate to salvage Republican prospects for the midterms, Trump's Postal Service publishes plans to suppress voting by mail if the Supreme Court allows it. Republicans evidently think they can win an election only by blocking voters.
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Why did far more Americans die of Covid-19 than people in other rich nations? Inadequate testing, erratic lockdowns, poor contact tracing, and too little willingness to be vaccinated. Yet Republicans, rather than focus on these real problems, attack Fauci.
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Evidently fearful of young people voting, the Trump administration is pressuring universities NOT to help students register to vote, even when the effort is entirely nonpartisan.
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