Comment on The Trump Phenomenon - Monthly Review

When Columbia students began occupying Hamilton Hall early Tuesday morning, they said their “escalation” builds on past campus protests that “Columbia once repressed yet celebrates today.” There is an irony here. Columbia students often hear about the history of dissent on campus. The university explains the student sit-ins of 1968—when protesters occupied buildings (including Hamilton Hall) for a week to protest anti-Black racism, the Vietnam War, and Columbia’s expansion into the surrounding neighborhood of Morningside Heights—in promotional materials with a hopeful nostalgia.

Colorado lawmakers convened Wednesday with one week left in this year’s session of the General Assembly, giving them limited time to pass final bills on land-use reform, gun regulation, property tax relief, tax credits and other priorities. Here are updates on major action and key developments. This story will be updated throughout the day. Updated at 11:31 a.m.: A bill to prohibit landlords and property owners from using commercially available algorithms to set rents died Wednesday morning when the House and Senate could not reconcile their differences on the bill. After House Bill 1057 passed the House, the Senate added an amendment that allowed landlords to use algorithms as long as the data was publicly available.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, SCOTT BAUER and MICHELLE L. PRICE (Associated Press) WAUKESHA, Wis. — Donald Trump on Wednesday will use a one-day break from his hush money trial to rally voters in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan, a day after he was held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order. His remarks will be closely watched after he received a $9,000 fine for making public statements about people connected to the case.

He’s nailed every election since 1984, but I think (and hope) that his historic data analysis cannot apply to the anomaly that is 2024.

If you rob a bank, you go to jail. But what if you only plan to rob a bank?

Arrests of student (and non-student) provocateurs at Columbia University make for a breath of fresh air.