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Can David Hume Save the Democratic Party? Source link
Perhaps no political figure of the modern era has done more to promote nationalism than President Donald Trump. Often he’s done so with remarkable candor. “You know what I am? I’m a nationalist, O.K.? I’m a nationalist,” Trump declared at a rally in 2018. “Use that word. Use that word.” Trump’s promotion of nationalism strikes me as being, on the whole, a salutary development for the American right. A potent form of group cohesion, nationalism anchors genuine political consciousness and helps distinguish between the essential and accidental qualities of a people (to borrow a philosophical distinction). America is a particular…
Image Source: Wikideas1 – CC0 I have never been a deficit hawk, and I’m not about to change my religious affiliation now. But whatever we think of debt and deficits, there is one point that should be very clear: it has been run up almost entirely due to Republican tax cuts and their inept management of the economy. Every Democratic president of the last half century has left with a deficit that was lower, measured as a share of GDP, than the one they came in with, except Obama, who left it unchanged. By contrast, every Republican president has left…
In Luigi Mangione – who confessed in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson – we see the grinning face of evil staring at us from the abyss. Source link
Fears of a datacenter buildout debt crisis are exaggerated. The risks are different than in the past and they are recoverable Source link
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. One of the important characteristics of Israel and Donald Trump’s war on Iran was that it never had the support of the American people. When George Bush launched his illegal invasion of Iraq, support stood strong at 72%. As the war turned into a debacle, that support waned. By contrast, the Iran war had the support of only 27% of the American public at the outset. It took four years for support for the Iraq war to fall to the low levels of support the Iran war enjoyed from the beginning. But an…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a new economic war against Iran dubbed Operation Economic Outcast. “At President Trump’s direction, the United States Treasury has begun Operation Economic Outcast, an unprecedented campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its enablers,” Bessent said on Monday. “In the Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries. Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran.” The Treasury Secretary explained the economic war will use sanctions in an effort…
Image by Levi Guzman. Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate, New York Times, June 24, 1988: On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist Dr. James E. Hansen testified before the U.S. Senate, stating he was “99 percent certain that human-induced global warming had begun.” Over the intervening 38 years, Dr. James Hansen has proven to be climate science’s most reliable academic voice expecting a climate-disruptive future. Now, it’s officially here and it’s a rising star on nightly news broadcasts across the world, if it’s not wildly burning, it’s flash-flooding. The leadership of the world has failed the science. Yet, today’s…
Darializa Avila Chevalier-upper Manhattan’s new congressional candidate, backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and endorsed by Mamdani-is shaping up to be one of the most dangerous students… Source link
Listen now You’re going to need it. Source link