Tag: imperial decline
Bin Laden and Trump: Two bookends to America’s imperial decline
The U.S. now is a very sick empire, faced abroad by powerful challenges to its hegemony, eroded by economic stagnation, shorn of ideological legitimacy, and torn apart internally by a civil war in all but name.
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Trump Treasury nominee Scott Bessent opposes raising $7.25 minimum wage despite millions living in...
Bessent links wage policies to state decisions while critics warn of deepening inequality.
Exclusive prayer for $100K: Trump’s Inauguration Committee faces criticism over ‘pay-to-pray’ event
Trump’s inauguration committee faces scrutiny for exorbitant ticket prices to interfaith prayer event.
The Santa Ana by Joan Didion
Written by Joan Didion, The Santa Ana ("Los Angeles Notebook"/Slouching Towards Bethlehem) was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1965.
Democrats have a massive opportunity as a pure opposition party
If they want to win, Democrats should view themselves not as the minority—but as the opposition.
Survivors of deadly LA wildfires demand accountability for Big Oil’s role in fueling climate...
Victims, scientists, and legal experts unite to hold fossil fuel companies criminally responsible.