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Since the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on January 7, the world’s attention has turned sharply to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Good, a mother of three children, had just dropped off her youngest child at school, when she had a chance encounter with ICE and attempted to leave the area.  She was shot four times and denied medical care. Her last words captured on video were, "I’m not mad at you." Outraged, thousands of Minnesotans took to the streets in protest. Good’s murder was followed... Читать дальше...

On 14 January, a few hours before the historic meeting in Washington between representatives from Greenland and Denmark and their U.S. counterparts, J. D. Vance and Marco Rubio, Denmark and several of its NATO allies reinforced their military presence in Greenland and announced that more reinforcements would follow. Some interpreted this move as pressure on More

In 2025, Black America needed about 1.8 million more people working to have the same employment rates (employment-to-population ratios) as White America (Table 1). This Black jobs deficit cost Black America about $87 billion in lost income. Black people face higher rates of joblessness because of racial discrimination in the labor market. Researchers continue to More

January 1956, Allen Ginsberg wrote: “America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.” It is January 2026. I’m not sure if we’ve given it all as citizens or as a society. Some votes, some taxes, some rants, some protests, but surely not enough. “Two dollars and twentyseven cents”? Don’t mention to Ginsberg the price of More

Trump’s narcissism has been on display for decades.  It is a serious personality disorder that is difficult to treat.  According to one prominent psychiatrist, Alexa Albert, narcissism is shaped by “early experiences of emotional neglect,” which were described in the book by Trump’s niece, Mary Trump (“Too Much—and Never Enough”) that was published six years ago.  According to Albert, such a personal history can leave a person “deeply shamed and dependent on external affirmation, intoxicated by... Читать дальше...

Al Polk landed a job at a cutting-tool plant in his early 20s and then promptly started paying Social Security taxes—every week, 12 months a year, without a break, for decades. Polk realized that collective responsibility for Social Security ensured a dignified retirement for all, and he took pride in holding up his end of More

For nearly eight decades, the U.S. dollar has occupied a place in the global order that no other currency has matched. It is the world’s default unit of account, its preferred medium of exchange, and its ultimate store of value. This dominance has given Washington enormous advantages, from low borrowing costs to unmatched financial leverage. More

The AI promoters have made grand promises about how AI will change everything and give us all happier, healthier lives.  Maybe that will be proven right, but it’s fair to say they have not yet delivered. However, AI workers may have the power to do something very important in the present, not some distant or More

There are a few new things in the US – just recycled atrocities that the media fails to recognize as sequels. In the US flash flood of bad dreams, the latest event in the drive-by-whizz of meaningless horror – the cold-blooded public execution of Renee Good – has come and gone. Good now becomes – at More

President Donald Trump’s long-serving aide, Stephen Miller, recently opined: “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world.” What Miller said is resonant with declarations by tyrants: “Political power grows out More