[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Whatever the ultimate outcome of President Trump’s conflict with Mexico, one consequence is already clear. He has undermined one of the most impressive U.S. foreign policy achievements of the past three decades. Mexico used to be a reflexively anti-American country, radical and resentful toward its powerful...
American Voters Don’t Care About the Economy
[aggregation-styles] The Economist James carville, who worked for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, hung a sign in his Arkansas headquarters in 1992. Designed to keep the candidate on-message, it read: “Change vs. more of the same. The economy, stupid. Don’t forget health care.” The second injunction has become famous. It is...
State-Sponsored Trolling Is Rampant Throughout the World—including the US
[aggregation-styles] MIT Technology Review Governments around the world have used targeted online hate and harassment campaigns to intimidate or silence people. The news: A report out today by the Institute for the Future, a California-based public policy group, details how widespread this has been. Hate mobs and anonymous threats have...
'The Ugly Americans': From Kermit Roosevelt to John Bolton
[aggregation-styles] Al Jazeera The publication of The Ugly American in 1958 created a sensation in the United States. A scathing critique of arrogant and inept American diplomatic provincialism, the novel was written as a warning by two Americans - Eugene Burdick and William Lederer - to their fellow Americans. It...
The West’s Crises Are Over, but the Populist Fury Remains
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post The results of last week’s European Parliament elections were mixed, which meant that every side could claim a victory of sorts. Right-wing populists did gain ground, but so did some decidedly left-wing parties, such as the Greens. The only clear conclusion is that the traditional parties...
The Last War—and the Next? Learning the Wrong Lessons From Iraq.
[aggregation-styles] Foreign Affairs Earlier this year, the U.S. Army published two volumes that amount to the most comprehensive official history of the Iraq war. They cover the conflict’s most important episodes: the U.S. invasion in 2003, the death spiral into civil war that took shape in the aftermath, the more...
If Fresno Grizzlies Don’t Fire Someone for Ocasio-Cortez Video, the Nationals Must
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post If Fresno Grizzlies Don’t Fire Someone for Ocasio-Cortez Video, the Nationals Must The way to oppose hateful speech, and the implicit incitement to violence that always lies within it, is to find out who did it and punish them. Nothing else will do. When that incitement...
Carly Rae Jepsen Empowers Women’s Emotions in a Society That Too Often Dismisses Them
[aggregation-styles] Pacific Standard Carly Rae Jepsen Empowers Women's Emotions in a Society That Too Often Dismisses Them Women's emotions are often dismissed. The culture at large tends to treat women's anger and pain and sadness and even joy and enthusiasm as girlish. A woman in love is silly, a woman...
Human Atrocity Doesn’t Start With Violence. It Starts With Prejudice and Propaganda.
[aggregation-styles] Upworthy Human Atrocity Doesn't Start With Violence. It Starts With Prejudice and Propaganda. Not very many things scare me, but extremism in every form does. We hear a lot about the extremism of radicalized Islamic groups, and yes, such groups are worrisome. But labeling an entire religious group with...
Meet John Bolton, an Architect of the Iraq War Who’s Now Agitating for Trump to Take Action Against Iran
[aggregation-styles] Business Insider Former Bush Official Says John Bolton Was 'by Far the Most Dangerous Man We Had in the Entire 8 Years' The United States seems to be moving closer to a conflict with Iran— and the man at the center of it all, national security advisor John Bolton,...
