Haiti’s “manufactured chaos” is the result of foreign intervention in connivance with the country’s oligarchic elites. Erik Prince’s mercenaries will not fix it; they will only make it worse.
Read more...The American scientific community is in a difficult place. I started my first job in an academic research laboratory (funded by the Energy Research and Development Administration and the National Science Foundation) in 1975, which somehow was fifty years ago when I was the youngest person in the laboratory instead of the oldest. I have […]
Read more...Over time, Democrats came to support the end to South Africa’s apartheid, whch makes the cowardice over Gaza genocide even more deplorable
Read more...How neoliberalism contributes to the growth of fascism.
Read more...American elites looked at post-USSR Russia and said “let’s do that here.” A president serious about MAGA should ask Putin how he dug the county out of that hole.
Read more...On the long process of Urkaine national identify formation and why, even with that, Ukraine was relatively late to become a state.
Read more...RealPage continues ugly post-Citizens United trend, and provides more evidence that the Democrat Abundance enthusiasts are full of hot air.
Read more...Trump’s urban takeovers reveal a governing pattern that blends the language of small government with a readiness to deploy maximum state force when it serves political ends.
Read more...The Journal laments how mobility has fallien while averting its eyes from how neoliberalsm and rentierism are the drivers.
Read more...Details on some of the Trump agreements with top universities, such as the gap between the antisemitism bludgeon and what Trump got.
Read more...A Sanders effort to preserve Social Security shows some of the Trump vectors of attack.
Read more...Tracing the increased concentration of power in our elites, and how Trump is in the process of consolidating it in his person.
Read more...Technology is precipitating shifts in character, particularly a drop in conscientiousness, to our individual and collective disadvantage.
Read more...The future younger people inherit is being decided less by the constraints of economics than by the limits of political imagination.
Read more...The US cannot achieve its goals in the world by traditional economic or military means, so it increasingly prefers chaos and destruction. How do the other powers stop it?
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