Californians are once again struggling with devastating wildfires and another hot summer that has wreaked havoc on the state. Both placed an enormous strain on our electrical grid, causing rolling black outs across the state, sometimes for days at a time. So, at a time when the electrical grid is...
Opinion: TJ Cox Is Fighting to Bring Water to the Taps and the Fields
Kerman is an hour drive from David Valadao’s home but it might as well have been on another planet. For six years Valadao supposedly represented Congressional District 21, and for all six he was mostly missing in action. Mr. Valadao graced us with his presence once during his tenure, and...
Opinion: Israel’s Founding Generation of Looters
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz According to historian Adam Raz, in his book “Looting of Arab Property in the War of Independence” (Carmel Publishing House, in association with the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research; in Hebrew), Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion said in July 1948: “It turned out that most of the Jews...
Trumpworld Delighted in Cruelty. Now That Trump Has COVID, It Demands Empathy.
[aggregation-styles] Business Insider Subscription Trumpists love their Dear Leader in no small measure because of his talent for unapologetically engaging in abject cruelty. Whether he was mocking a disabled reporter's affliction and delighting in Hillary Clinton's health travails on the 2016 campaign trail or separating migrant children with Down syndrome...
I Thought Trump Was Winning the Debate. but Then I Turned off the Sound.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription If you want to understand who won this week’s presidential debate, keep in mind a moment from our political past that I call “Stahl’s Epiphany.” During the 1984 presidential campaign, CBS reporter Lesley Stahl put together a tough, unsparing critique of Ronald Reagan, focusing on...
Judd Gregg: The Horror of the Biden Budget
[aggregation-styles] The Hill In Joseph Conrad’s classic novella Heart of Darkness, his main character, Kurtz, goes into the African jungle. There, Kurtz dies. But his last words have carried on. Kurtz concludes his life and the book with the cry: “The horror.” The words and story have undergone constant reinterpretation...
Trump Could Stay in Power Even If He Doesn’t Win the Election. The Constitution Allows It.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription By declining to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, President Trump has agitated many who fear he will refuse to leave office even if he loses the November election — and may even resort to violence. The terrifying reality is that there are also...
Opinion: The End of the Saudi Era
[aggregation-styles] Al Jazeera As we approach the second anniversary of the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia continues its retreat, losing direction and influence in the Gulf and Middle East regions. More than 50 years after the Saudi kingdom began its rise to regional and international prominence...
Is Mike Pompeo Preparing an October Surprise?
It appears that the Trump administration is laying the groundwork for an imminent military confrontation with Iran, seemingly to boost President Trump’s re-election prospects. With less than seven weeks left until the U.S. presidential elections, the faction within the Trump administration aligned with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seems to...
What Sets Apart Countries That Successfully Handled the Pandemic? Failure.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription What explains why some countries have handled the covid-19 pandemic well and others have done poorly? It’s a complicated question, but if we look at the place that has arguably had the greatest success, the answer is failure. Taiwan gets the gold medal for its...