Category: Politics
The Wide Angle: Is Reality Making a Comeback?
by Dave Troy | Nov 18, 2022 | Elections, Politics, The Wide AngleIt’s always healthy to guard against premature optimism, but reality may be making a comeback. Cryptocurrency markets are cratering; Russia has surrendered Kherson; Elon Musk is melting down at Twitter; and President Biden and the Democrats delivered the best midterm performance since President Kennedy. I’ve been watching these trends as a single networked phenomenon, and […]
Will Household Debt Derail the US Economy?
by Steven Pressman | Nov 3, 2022 | EconomyUS household debt hit a record $16.15 trillion in the second quarter of 2022. Mortgage debt accounts for 75% of the total; college debt another 10%. The rest is mainly motor vehicle and credit card debt. Rising household debt over the past two years is worrisome, and will become a greater problem as interest rates […]
America’s Gun Fetish
by Chris Hedges | Nov 1, 2022 | PoliticsGuns were a ubiquitous part of my childhood. My grandfather, who had been a master sergeant in the army, had a small arsenal in his house in Mechanic Falls, Maine. He gave me a 2020 bolt action Springfield rifle when I was 7. By the time I was 10, I had graduated to a Winchester […]
Trump’s Criminal Intent — Day Nine
by Jonathan Alter | Nov 1, 2022 | Election 2020, PoliticsIt has been three months since the last January 6th Committee hearing — a lifetime in the theater of politics — so it was only natural that members opted to use Day Nine to offer a refresher course on how Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election and end American democracy. In doing so, they finally […]
The Right Normalizes Anti-Semitism
by Charlie Sykes | Nov 1, 2022 | Politics, RacePerhaps the frog wasn’t boiled after all. Maybe it was just exhausted. How else to explain the flaccid reaction this week to American conservativism’s casual normalization of anti-Semitism? It’s been two weeks since the former president blasted out his complaint about ungrateful Jews. The implicit threat got no points for subtlety. Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO […]
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