Cults
From a No More Mister Nice post - Rush and Pence discussing Trump's upcoming Florida gathering.
RUSH: No, let me explain that. It’s just a guy at a microphone, a guy at a podium.
tnb...... "yeah, just like Jim Jones."
American Corrupitalism
The KPMG cheating scandal was much more widespread than originally thought
War
Ian Welsh Why Would Iran Attack Tankers? - The US War party needs to go.
War - Israel vs Palestine
Vox: This chart shows every person killed in the Israel-Palestine conflict since 2000
The Economy
Inflation Is Dead: What’s Needed to Reanimate It?
What would it take to bump inflation back to life—that is, above 2% yearly? Surging population growth with young people vastly outnumbering retirees, emerging market labor costs on a par with those in the West and Japan, and technology advances reaching a place where it’s not displacing any more workers. Oh, and perhaps a return of labor unions.
tnb.... I'd add more income/wealth equality.
2020
Ian Welsh with a pretty good take on the D's that I like - Bernie Sanders vs. Elizabeth Warren
Politics - Death of the Reagan Regime?
A good series here on the death of the Reagan regime and the future of politics in the US, from Jack Balkin at Balkinization. Read them all.
- Escaping Dysfunction
- Cycle of Presidents or Cycle of Regimes?
- How Polarization Leads to Disjunction-- There Must Be Fifty Ways to Leave Your Party
- The New Party Configuration
- The Limits of a Cosmopolitan Party
- How Constitutional Rot Ends
2024 !?
The 2024 campaign has started and Nikki Haley has Israel's vote.
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