No Republican can beat Trump, because no one else can command his coalition of damaged, discarded, marginal people PUBLISHED MAY 20, 2023 in Salon.com link to article In the last few weeks the mainstream media have not only buried the presidential ambitions of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, they’ve driven a stake through the corpse’s heart…
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How a Debt Default Could Bring Down the Dollar
Published Mat 10, 2023 In NewYork Times Since 1960, Congress has acted 78 times to increase the statutory debt limit to avert a government default. Indeed, when I worked in Congress, from the mid-1980s to 2011, after a bit of posturing, Congress always increased the debt ceiling — and created the expectation that debt-limit fights were a…
No, dictatorships are not more “efficient”: See how Putin and Xi have wrecked their countries
Mussolini didn’t make the “trains run on time,” and Hitler’s economy was a disaster. Some lessons must be relearned PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 18, 2023 in Salon .com Link to article Perhaps the most surprising story of the past year has been the abysmal performance of the Russian military in its invasion of Ukraine. Clumsy tactics, military…
Making excuses for dictators is nothing new: “Mr. Republican” and the Nazis
GOP’s boy-crush on Putin and Orbán shouldn’t be surprising — consider legendary Republican Sen. Robert Taft. PUBLISHED JANUARY 7, 2023 in Salon.com Readers may be familiar with Rachel Maddow’s explosive new podcast, “Ultra.” It tells the incredible story of a German spy who infiltrated Congress in 1940-41, inducing two dozen congressmen and senators to spread Nazi…
There Is a Great Replacement Going On–But It’s Not What You’ve Been Told
Rising death rates in red America is an underreported story with deep ideological roots. Published in CommonDreams Dec 21, 2022 Very likely, the reader is wearily familiar with one of the memes that American right wingers endlessly repeat. It’s called the Great Replacement: the claim that shadowy but apparently omnipotent elites are deliberately replacing the…
Republicans have a plan — to hold America hostage over the debt ceiling yet again
GOP readies another round of legislative terrorism in search of spending cuts. Biden needs to fight back hard PUBLISHED DECEMBER 13, 2022 in Salon.com Sometime during the next session of Congress, Republicans will check the box on one of their perennial agenda items whenever a Democrat is president: Threatening to crash the entire U.S. economy…
The Media Frenzy Over High Gas Prices Obscures an Inconvenient Truth
Many Americans seek a villain, but they forgot to look in the mirror. Published in Commondreams Nov 4, 2022 Journalist and media critic James Fallows did us a service by recently pointing out in a couple of his of his posts that among the media’s most unexamined and hoary clichés is that fabled phrase, used whenever the media…