Why Losing Political Power Now Feels Like ‘Losing Your Country’
It is difficult, if not impossible, to attempt to counter polarization at a time when partisan sectarianism is intense and pervasive.
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**** Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
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*** NYTimes.com: Rural Voters Are More Progressive Than the Democratic Party Thinks rj
Conversations and insights about the moment.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/16/opinion/thepoint?smid=em-share
********* Freedom for the Wolves
Neoliberal orthodoxy holds that economic freedom is the basis of every other kind. That orthodoxy, a Nobel economist says, is not only false; it is devouring itself.
As Isaiah Berlin would have it: Freedom for the wolves; death for the sheep.
***** NYTimes: The Line Between Good and Evil Cuts Through Evangelical America
The Line Between Good and Evil Cuts Through Evangelical America https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/opinion/christianity-fundamentalist-evangelical-pentacostal.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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[*** The Washington Post] One poll question summarizes eight years of Donald Trump
Asked who they trust for information about Ukraine, Republicans were most likely to point to the former president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/15/poll-ukraine-news-trump-honesty/
*** NYTimes.com: How New Wars Have Brought Back Old American Divisions
How New Wars Have Brought Back Old American Divisions
Both parties experience echoes of decades past.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/opinion/republicans-democrats-ukraine-israel.html?smid=em-share
*** We’ve Been Thinking About America’s Trust Collapse All Wrong
Trust isn’t something that emerges naturally from a well-functioning society; people have to build it through hard work.
**** [The Washington Post] Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been gathering data on the vulnerabilities of its Western adversaries, a classified Russian document shows.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/
********** ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.
https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/