Category: USA
Three Questions About Politics and the Campus Protests
By Jess Bidgood at The NY Times: The pro-Palestinian student encampments protesting the war in…
The Damage the ‘Black Tax’ Inflicted on Generations of African Americans
By Adeel Hassan at The New York Times: Property is generally worth less if it’s…
Is it Democratic to Disqualify a Popular Candidate From the Ballot?
Benjamin A. Schupmann at the Oxford University Press Blog: That a popular candidate could be…
Is the Gaza war Tearing US University Campuses Apart?
Joel Mathis, at The Week: Campus unrest over the war in Gaza “has reached a…
Is the Next Cold War a Drone-Swarm Race Between US and China?
Both global superpowers are building up their capacity for surging robotic warfare. What happens next…
The Butterfly’s Wings: FDR, Truman, and Henry Wallace
If you don’t like people, you hadn’t ought to be in politics at all, and…
How Did America Become a Credit Card Nation?
Sean H Vanatta at Aeon/Psyche: The American economy has always relied on household borrowing. Since…
Debate: Should the U.S. Ban TikTok?
by Isaac Grafstein at The Free Press: What, if anything, should we do about TikTok?…
Seymour Hersh: How the Pentagon Engineered a Fake War to Prevent a Real One
JIM W. DEAN intro at The Intel Drop: I had been hoping to see Sy…
The Unfinished Business of Kennedy’s Vision for World Peace
Philip A. Goduti, Jr. in The Conversation: Less than a week after her husband’s assassination…
Americans Have a Long History of Worrying About Declinism
By Joseph S. Nye Jr. at Time: As election year politics heat up, Donald Trump…
A New Forein Policy Era Dawns
William Kristol and Andrew Egger at The Bulwark: All around us, there are indications—I’m tempted,…