Trump is adept at using his willingness to be wildly inconsistent to destabilize opponents. But he is unduly fond of using blunt instruments like tariffs that he can impose unilaterally, with insufficient consideration of whether they will work all that well, let alone what bad unintended effects they might generate. What Trump has done so […]
Read more...DOGE is dodgy! Who’d have thunk it? Four fast-off-the-block filings seek to bring it to heel.
Read more...To discuss: “Trump’s weaponisation of US power poses a threat to peace, prosperity and the planet.”
Read more...Will Musk’s taste for a US favorite, regime change, include 2025 Polish elections? If so, will the answer be Romania-style extreme measures?
Read more...Why DOGE, if implemented on the scale intended, will be a train wreck for the great majority of Americans.
Read more...More handwringing about populist political figures, and what can be done to counter their messaging successes.
Read more...States with confirmed dairy cattle bird flu cases have drastically different personal protective equipment responses, and most are failing.
Read more...Yves here. I’ve been waiting for legal arguments against the planned wholesale Federal budget whackage under the Trump DOGE initiative to start. Admittedly its leaders Musk and Ramaswamy had not given much insight into how they intended to achieve their ambitious aims. The little I have seen suggests that they effectively intend to override regulations….which […]
Read more...Pam Bondi has a terrible record as far as going after corporate misconduct is concerned, which explains Senate enthusiasm for her.
Read more...After a long delay, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against the open genociders Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
Read more...With Trump nominations like Matt Gaetz, RFK, Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard attracting lots of ire, Mario Rubio is being treated as sound. That’s a mistake.
Read more...The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants banks to send data of ex-customers to a new bank. Banks are howling. They may have a point.
Read more...A historical look at Presidential power grabs, um, authority expansion, with an eye to what that means under Trump 2.0.
Read more...Financial vehicles designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity fuel corruption and crime while allowing perps evade accountability
Read more...The Eric Adams indictment involves the abuse of small donations to obtain illegal matches and may go well beyond Turkiye donors
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