My sarcastic mockery of the Trump mantra that the personal pain will be short lived was not about a possible course correction four years from now. However , you do bring up what I’m sure is a...
I hear ya. They don't sugarcoat anything there. I'm just grateful that it exists as a witness, along with other approaches, eg that of Ezra Klein, who is the ultimate policy geek always...
Oh I like the Bulwark and Tim Miller okay, it's just they tend to be always at an 11 out of 10 on the sky is falling scale and I tend to want to be at more of a 7 or 8, just for my own sanity....
'Greatest country in the world?' Mass shootings ... mass incarceration ... and then, how many people go bankrupt from medical bills each year? A stark graphic making the rounds: Canada: 0...
Do you not find it wrong to fret over Trump’s tariffs on coffee beans, Buddha statues, and fine Scotch whiskey while your bombs and bullets rob Gazans of their lives? Are you not even slightly...
The soldiers buried the bodies of the 15 dead aid workers in the sand ''only to protect and preserve them from the wild hungry animals,'' an official later dutifully intoned....
People are missing the forest for the trees. Tariff policy is the biggest grift of all given the extraordinary power that the President has in this domain, along with the complete capitulation of...
Adam Tooze: 'Chartbook 363 Stockholm syndrome in Mar-a-Lago: The belief that "something must be done" and the sanewashing of economic policy in the age of Trump' 'None of...
Perhaps he will even change the national anthem by fiat, à la the 'Gulf of America'... You gotta admit though, the man has a profound understanding of groceries:
Great questions again. I'll do my best to try and reply to them: 'How can one accurately gauge if there is real agreement as to one's relative state of mind compared to...
Excellent video that summarized my understanding of the world - Pax Americana - economics since America's ascendancy post WWII. Like daiginjo, I don’t speak Navajo and the fine details of...
Bernie is a sort of Ron/Rand Paul figure on the left and I understand the appeal. Bernie has literally made a career out of consistently reciting the same populist narratives for like 40 years....
I used follow this (M&M) channel. Ira is right, this is sanewashing... I listened to this a day after it came out, now it is good sanewashing, with quotes from Trumps two economic honchos, but...
