Category: USA
How to Defend Democracy from Itself: On Steve Erickson’s “American Stutter, 2019–2021”
Charles Taylor in the Los Angeles Review of Books: American Stutter, 2019–2021, novelist Steve Erickson’s…
How Cartoonists are Chronicling the ‘Wild’ Jan. 6 Hearings
The Jan. 6 hearings are riveting compared to the Watergate hearings. Artists take on the…
Biden’s Visit to KSA ‘Worse Than an Embarrassment’ (Video)
BERING STRAIT + TROPIC OF CANCER Report: Meetings between leaders of important nations are usually…
Kissinger Warns Biden Against Endless Confrontation With China
“…the importance of understanding the permanence of China.” Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger…
Who Benefits from Income and Wealth Growth in the United States?
Thomas Blanchet, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman of the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley…
A CIA Assassin and a Psychopath Play a Game of Cat and Mouse in This Action-Thriller (Video)
The Gray Man is Netflix’s most costly film with a reported budget of $200 million…
Why No One Believes American Rhetoric About Democracy
President Joe Biden travels to Saudi Arabia to repair his relationship with the kingdom in…
Obama on ‘Regime Change’ and ‘Conspiracy Theories’ (Video)
BERING STRAIT + TROPIC OF CANCER SERIES Report: Former President Barack Obama visited Stanford University…
America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good
Ronald Brownstein in The Atlantic: It may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America….
Why America’s Far Right and Far Left Have Aligned Against Helping Ukraine
For all their disparate political goals and motivations, what unites the far left and far…
How PFIZER Won Pandemic — in Profit and Influence
By Arthur Allen at Kaiser Health News: The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have…
Most Americans Agree the Govt is ‘Corrupt and Rigged’
Most Americans agree the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me” and…