Why “make government efficient” and cost cutting programs are close to destined to come up short.
Read more...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...Unlike many who are upset about Trump’s win, Liz Theoharis and William Hartung focus building a broad-based opposition with policy goals
Read more...A new legal low: the Kentucky Attorney General wants to gift the pension fund’s money to KKR and Blackstone to settle claims against them.
Read more...Tom Neuburger presents Alfred McCoy’s book, To Govern the Globe, and his concept of world orders.
Read more...Some of Trump’s first day initiatives will run into a buzz saw of legal opposition, but others on the economic warfare front seem to pack a punch.
Read more...Ideas about how to reduce fire risk in Los Angeles do not appear to go far enough.
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...A new report shows a 50% GDP fall from 2070 to 2090 due to climate change. Los Angeles gives a taste of coming struggles about what to do.
Read more...Why Russia’s seeming high class problem of being able to secure a military victory in Ukraine really is a problem.
Read more...State-level activists have been building coalitions to implement higher and more extensive taxes on the wealthy. What are their prospects?
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?
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