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American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark. Scribner. 528 pages “Leave Donald alone,” Roy Cohn warned a federal prosecutor. “He’s going to be big one day.” The author Kai Bird takes us back to the mid-1970s, when Roy Marcus Cohn, the erstwhile McCarthyite witchhunter-turned–lawyer-fixer for notorious New York City mobsters, was defending Donald Trump, then 27 and on the make, in a racial discrimination lawsuit. The feds charged Trump and his mobbed-up father Fred with barring blacks from renting in dozens of the family’s outer-borough apartment buildings. Using plainly…
Culture Culture The Age of the Ego Graffitists and modern architects alike are screaming into the void of mass culture. Photo by Romain Doucelin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Once more on my way from the center of Paris to the airport, I marvelled at the sheer hideousness of almost everything built since the end of the Second World War, the precise time when France was becoming richer than it had ever been. There must be a lesson here somewhere, but I don’t know what it is. Also remarkable, though not pleasing, was the sheer scale of the spray-painted tagging of practically…
Protein is essential for muscle maintenance, metabolic health, hormone production and immune function. High-protein diets (1.2–2.2g/kg body weight) can aid weight loss, prevent muscle/bone loss with age and improve satiety. Daily needs vary by activity level and goals—typically 1.6–2.0g/kg (25–35% of calories). Active individuals or those aiming for fat loss/muscle gain may require more. Prioritize high-quality sources like lean meats, eggs, dairy, tofu and lentils. Smart swaps (e.g., quinoa for rice, Greek yogurt for sour cream) and protein-rich snacks (hard-boiled eggs, seeds) simplify intake. High-protein diets are safe for healthy individuals—they don’t harm kidneys or bones and may improve insulin…
Congress finally created workforce Pell Grants. Now states have to build the systems that can tell which programs actually work. Source link
The Trump administration is pushing to eliminate the approach at the federal level, but states like Maryland continue to pursue Source link
Forecasts warned of $200 oil if the war ran past June. Regional exports, while below pre-war levels, rebounded faster than expected, and the United States has become the world’s largest oil exporter. Iran’s threat to trigger a weapon of mass economic destruction did not materialize.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
One of the more striking developments in American politics over the past three decades has been the transformation of the Democratic Party from a big-tent movement built around working-class Americans into an elite-driven institution obsessed with diversity, equity, and inclusion. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
One of the things about politics that people love to hate is polling. To a certain extent, this antipathy is entirely understandable. Source link
Friday, August 21st on RealClearPolitics – Joined by RCP National Political Correspondent, Susan Crabtree Source link
Eighty years of the same campfire story, and how a myth quietly became folklore In 1950, a retired Marine Corps major named Donald Keyhoe published The Flying Saucers Are Real and, with it, authored the operating system that ufology still runs on three-quarters of a century later. The claim was never simply that strange things are seen in the sky; people have reported that since antiquity. Keyhoe’s contribution was the second half, the one that holds the whole story up: that the United States government knows what those things are, that the answer is extraterrestrial, and that it is being…