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Individuals and corporations alike can spend infinite sums of money to influence elections and push candidates that will support and – at the very least – not oppose their interests. The Supreme Court protected such unlimited spending in its Buckley v. Valeo (1976) decision by classifying independent expenditures – which support or oppose a clearly More

The suppression of intelligent irreverence and the silencing of questions have come in recent years to be a common practice in far too many schools that I’ve been visiting. In a segregated elementary school that I visited in Boston’s Black community, if children asked importunate questions that threatened to disrupt the standardized rout-and-drill curriculum, and could not be silenced by the teacher’s admonitions, they were placed in a lockdown room—a storage closet in the hallway—that was called... Читать дальше...

Our reliance on the mainstream media, even the revered New York Times, for an understanding of Donald Trump’s psyche and behavior is a waste of time.  The media continue to discuss Trump in terms that normalize his psychotic behavior, refer to his style as transactional rather than dysfunctional, and deemphasize the risks associated with his remaining in power for two and a half more years.  If you want to understand Donald Trump and the risks he represents to all of us, you need the Diagnostic... Читать дальше...

Throughout the Israeli genocide in Gaza most people, myself included, felt like they were gradually going mad. How could the world, including the British government, possibly allow this to happen? That sense of madness was compounded by the inexplicable policies of many British news outlets (including the BBC) who refused to name the identity committing More

In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.  The Israeli version of a ceasefire might be defined as a moment of war deceptively halted to enable conflict to continue. War as cosplay and camouflage.  Under such fragile conditions, military objectives can still be pursued with a ruthlessness offensive to More

The recent announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran has been met with a predictable mix of relief and skepticism. President Trump has framed the pause as a definitive military victory, stating earlier today that “we are witnessing the triumph of American strength over chaos, and the world is finally coming More

When inventor Christopher Latham Sholes debuted the typewriter in 1872, he declined to pose with his machine for press photographs. Instead, the first images of his invention depict his daughter, Lillian, operating an early prototype of the Remington No. 1 in a velvet bodice and full-skirted dress, her right hand hovering over the keys while her left hand grasps the More

Donald Trump loathes mail-in voting — except, of course, when he uses this method to cast his own ballot, as he did in a recent Florida special election. Frustrated by Congressional inaction, Trump issued an executive order last week to restrict what he likes to call “mail-in cheating.” Actual proven cases of mail voting fraud? More

Fifteen miles off the coast of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, I descended through blue-green water along the anchor line that connected our dive boat to a shipwreck resting ninety feet below. This wasn’t just any wreck. It was one of my favorite dive sites in the world: the Caribsea, a cargo freighter torpedoed by a More

An agreement between Service Employees International Union Local 99 and the Los Angeles Unified School District, signed at 2 AM–five hours before pickets went up, closing down Los Angeles schools–has averted a strike by three labor unions representing 68,000 education workers. I had expected (and told our members) that if an agreement wasn’t reached by More