Apologists for Israel’s mass murder in Gaza fall back on ‘antisemitism’ claims
The gist of the trick is to equate Israel with the Jewish religion—and then to equate opposition to Israel with antisemitism.
The Collapse of the Middle-Class Job
How to pay for a solution? A financial speculation tax on the rich and, for the poor, a tradeoff of safety net benefits for the security of a guaranteed income.
Trump’s bid to transform international relations may succeed
Eliminating bureaucracy and abandoning the world order that the U.S. helped build may allow Trump to recalibrate foreign policy, at the cost of global stability.
Two roads diverge in a gonzo Trump wood—and losers loom
If DeSantis only broke more laws, / He’d be as popular as Santa Claus.
Sedition caucus mimics Trump’s worst sin: Demolition of content—legal, moral, democratic or electoral
The party of primitive deplorables, thinking it too could play with fire, is facing an outraged majority. Too bad it took so long.
Comparing poverty in India and America
But how does this compare to the worst forms of poverty in other countries?
When I was at law school with Clarence Thomas
I was in law school in 1973 when the Supreme Court decided Roe, protecting a pregnant person’s right to privacy under the 14th amendment to the Constitution.
Requiem for the Home Front
Tom Engelhardt tells a little story about a bottle, a message, time, war (American-style), his mother and himself. Here's to Irma the caricaturist.
How does Santos the phony phony differ from Trump the genuine phony?
Imitating Trump’s illusion of invulnerability does not protect one against self-destruction.
The Democratic Party’s anti-Bernie elites have a huge stake in blaming Russia
Top party officials seem bent on returning to a kind of pre-Bernie-campaign doldrums.