Tag: rise-up economics

An attempted assassination charge outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner triggered urgent security questions, but the political aftershocks spread far wider, exposing how conspiracy culture, rising extremism, and collapsing trust are reshaping responses to violence in America.

There is a dramatic slowdown in the previously accelerating pace of coal plant retirements because utility companies are responding to a rise in electricity demand from data centers and other sources. 

World organizations have declared that Israel is the criminal country of the world. And, therefore, trade with it must be curtailed, and it must happen soon.

This is just one example of mainstream media not only refusing to ask questions of war criminals, but blatantly befriending them.

Written by Joan Didion, The Santa Ana ("Los Angeles Notebook"/Slouching Towards Bethlehem) was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1965.