While the Trump Administration is considering taking Greenland and Canada under its wing, there’s another foreign country America should watch over, in the way that a parent cares for a child: California. If the Golden State were a nation, it would have the fifth-highest GDP globally: $3.8 trillion (more…
Rachel Maddow is being asked to “put her money where her mouth is,” according to Bluesky platform users. She famously went on a rant about losing her “non-white” colleague, Joy Reid, and others at MSNBC, even going so far as to cite (what else) racism. Reid — whose dwindling audience…
Readers want to know why the UK PM and European leaders–really, non-leaders, misleaders, bad leaders–want war with Russia over Ukraine. My answer is that they don’t. What would they go to war with? According to the European “leaders,” they already have given all their weapons to Ukraine and have nothing with…
The West likes to talk about the rise of China. For the Chinese, it is not a rise. It is a return to normalcy – the place China occupied in the world for most of its existence. Most educated people are aware China is the oldest continuous…
A Republican-led Senate bill to prevent boys from participating in girls’ sports failed to overcome the legislative filibuster on Monday night after it did not reach the necessary 60-vote threshold to advance. The bill failed to clear the key procedural hurdle by a vote of 51-45, along party lines. …
After last week’s botched Epstein files release, many are calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to be fired over the lame binders given to right-wing influencers and journalists that contained old information. On Monday, Bondi appeared on Fox News, where she told host Sean Hannity that she received a truckload of files…
Most of the ideas that shaped 20th century America boiled up during the 19th century in the aftermath of the Civil War. Some arrived from the Old World before and during the war, things like nationalism and socialism, but most were homegrown ideas that arose out of American Protestantism…
Napoleonic Wars, Crimean, Franco-Prussian, World War I, World War II. Has it been too long? Do the Europeans now long for the cathartic release of mass killing? The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once remarked that “mankind is doomed to vacillate eternally between boredom and distress.” Have Europe’s leaders grown…
Over the weekend, President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk made quite a stir with just two words posted on his social media platform, X. Responding to a post that, “It’s time to leave NATO and the UN,” Musk replied, “I agree.” The comment immediately made the…
I have criticized Donald Trump countless times for his pattern of promising, bloviating, then backing off. Or more often flip flopping. I coined the term the Trumpenstein Project to explain his befuddling behavior. He talked the talk, but never walked the walk. All toupee and no cattle. Well, now…
