[aggregation-styles] OZY NASCAR, the governing body of stock car racing in the U.S., dumped North Wilkesboro Speedway into history’s dustbin in 1996 when it took away the North Carolina track’s two lucrative “Cup” races. But apart from the track, it also left behind bitter fans, its grassroots, as it chased...
Bernie Sanders’s Magical Thinking on Climate Change
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription The prospect of Bernie Sanders becoming the Democratic nominee has startled many people who worry that his brand of democratic socialism won’t sell and would pave the way for a second Trump term. This might well be true, but it considers Sanders solely through the...
Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription Republicans have a long, disreputable history of conflating any attempt to improve American lives with the evils of “socialism.” When Medicare was first proposed, Ronald Reagan called it “socialized medicine,” and he declared that it would destroy our freedom. These days, if you call...
How a Bible Prophecy Shapes Trump’s Foreign Policy
[aggregation-styles] Vox When President Donald Trump authorized the drone strike that killed the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, he wasn’t just flexing America’s muscle in the Middle East. He was also acting on the advice of a politically powerful group of evangelical Christians who believe the US and Israel are...
Why the Coronavirus Should Change the Way We Think About China
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Some two months since the first reports of a new virus in central China, the death toll from the coronavirus has passed 1,000, eclipsing the number who died in the 2003 SARS epidemic. Recent estimates are that 40,000 are infected, but that is likely an...
Column: About to Become Teachers, They’re Worried About Affording the Rent
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times “So what we’re going to do now is label our triangles,” student teacher Keiri Ramirez told her class at Northridge Academy High School. “A prime, B prime and C prime.” Ramirez, inspired by her middle-school teacher in Huntington Park, is about to graduate from Cal State...
Americans Have Failed People With Mental Illness. Trump’s New Budget Will Change That.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription President Trump is exceptionally focused on fighting for Americans who can’t fight for themselves and confronting problems other administrations, Democratic and Republican, have ignored. This is particularly true for Americans who suffer from addiction and serious mental disorders. In this year’s budget, President Trump is...
Why Democratic Candidates Haven’t Been Able to Energize Voters
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription After the debacle of the Iowa caucuses, the old quip attributed to Will Rogers seems just right: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” Actually, that broad Democratic coalition encompassing Southern segregationists, working-class union members and Northern liberals...
The Warm California Sun Needs to Shine in The Dark Corners of Government Operations
Gov. Gavin Newsom promised greater transparency in California government. Jerry Brown was elected secretary of state 50 years ago on a transparency platform. While serving one of his terms in what nearly turned out to be a “governor-for-life” political career, Brown said he was “committed to keeping state government open...
Trump’s Middle East Plan: Starting Point or Dead End?
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription Of the many proposals for an Israeli-Palestinian peace rolled out over the decades, circumstances made the one President Trump announced on Tuesday the hardest to take seriously. While Mr. Trump outlined what he described as his “vision” for a Mideast peace in the gilded...
