Politics

To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.

When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.

The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.

Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.

Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.

The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.

On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.

So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.

Now that the US is again involved in a major war in the region, Iraq tilts to Washington’s enemy, Iran.

If all Americans regardless of their political beliefs, racial backgrounds, and economic standing were required to serve together and learn from each other to achieve a goal as a cohesive unit, it could be what helps future generations heal from the division that’s plaguing our political system.