Politics

So, brace for reams of critical Brexit analysis, implying the UK cut off its nose to spite its face. And let’s never forget Trump’s high-risk, gambling world is “winning take all.” That means “losers gets nothing.” Hardly a great model for parenting, let alone large-scale, global business planning or trade or health for complex, modern nation-states. Gambling for adults works when betting disposable dollars on transient sporting events when the results are instantly known. Will voters in November here not add false flummery about Brexit shortfalls as another crack-brain spoke in Trump’s broken-down political wheelhouse?

As he did in 2016, he is pleading for foreign governments to give him hacked dirt on the Democrat.

Influence is typically written in an abbreviated, matter-of-fact style, but its brief items speak volumes about the realities of American politics.

Thomas Edsall’s demographic analysis is almost always misleading (FAIR.org, 2/10/15, 10/9/15, 6/5/16, 3/30/18, 7/24/19)—and his latest column for the New York Times (8/28/19) is no exception.

The US has been offering Saudi Arabia direct intelligence and logistics support for its campaign in Yemen since March 2015.

The effort is known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

This is the time to be strong and persistent in our demand for an end to NAFTA and a new era of positive trade.

We will need a guaranteed income, ideally through guaranteed jobs, with the implementation of a financial transaction tax, and with a commitment to alternative energy infrastructure development.

Pruitt is a wholly owned subsidiary of the oil industry.

Many politicians are disappointed in the election process and the electoral college this year.