All of us who write about politics are writing these “what if he wins” pieces. It’s terrifying. I truly believe that his administration will implement as much of Project 2025 as he can get away with because he doesn’t ever have to face the voters again. (Either he will leave under the normal constitutional order or he’ll suspend elections and stay past his term under some BS emergency order.) He would also be unshackled by the rule of law now that the Supremes have given him immunity. Combined with his obviously degraded mental state and bitterness over his loss in 2020 and the legal consequences of his criminal behavior, he’s going to be on a mission. Rolling Stone’s entry into this genre has some chilling quotes that I haven’t head before: It was the second year of his presidency, and Trump was seething about gang members and drug lords. He wanted to see their bodies piled up in the streets.
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That warning was 20 years ago, but in the years since, the US has continued in its violent and aggressive ways, cloaking its violence and aggression with bromides about a rules-based international order and defence of democratic values. If only that was true. The US is a far greater threat to world peace than China. Continue reading »
Last week the ABC carried a story about the death of many Israelis on 7 October 2023 as a result of firing by Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships. The controversial “Hannibal Directive”, which Israel says isn’t named for the famous Carthaginian general who took poison rather than be captured by the Romans, was reportedly enacted Continue reading »
This week I was practising my argument about a feeling that Albanese Labor has by now left it too late to retrieve its position before the next federal election is due. This was after it was revealed that the economy is on life support and that Labor’s best argument about being a superior economic manager Continue reading »
On 3 July 2024, The Age’s Chief Reporter, Chip Le Grand, emailed, called and sent a text message to my phone, posing a series of bad faith, disingenuous accusations and loaded questions which cast me as a “holocaust denier” and anti-semite. “October 7 denial, like holocaust denial,” Le Grand wrote to me, “has taken many Continue reading »
While most Australians remain well-housed, few public policy experts would argue that our housing system is today in good shape. Homelessness continues to increase and both rental and mortgage affordability stress are widespread. But although compounded by post-pandemic market disruption, such problems have been mounting over decades. Perhaps the single most powerful indicator of dysfunction Continue reading »
The Labor Government’s handling of possible questions about sexuality and gender identity in the 2026 has been a debacle. It is also the latest in a series. Is this just part of Labor’s slide towards timidity, or is Labor also acting in bad faith towards the LGBTQI+ community? Continue reading »
What is the point of the International rule book of law and order? What is the point of UN treaties and conventions if justice is only dealt out to the chosen few? Why are they chosen and who chooses them? Continue reading »
Organisational management, especially when it comes to large entities, has little to recommend it. Arrange the schedules. Pamper sponsors and behave simperingly. Ensure a diet of pills to null the embarrassment. Mind the assets and fret over the brand. Sigh over ledgers and order spreadsheets. When it comes to the classical music industry, all of Continue reading »
California had a shot at making Big Tech pay for its stranglehold on local news — but instead it caved to industry pressure and strengthened tech firms’ grip.
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1. Two trains are heading toward each other. Jane’s train left the station in Atlanta at 5 a.m., traveling north at 60 miles per hour. 1,124 miles away, Tom’s train left the station in St. Paul at 5:30 a.m., traveling south at 70 miles per hour. At what time will Jane’s train collide with Tom’s, and how much sooner would the collision have happened had our country invested in high-speed rail like most other industrialized nations?
2. Would bureaucratic interventions and government regulations have been able to prevent this disaster? If yes, would you reconsider your answer, knowing that those regulations could negatively impact shareholder dividends by up to 4 percent over the course of a fiscal year?
3. Calculate how likely you’d be to watch a video of the train crash if it popped up in your social media feed. It’s a tragedy, but it would probably be crazy to see, right? While you’re on Instagram there, do you follow my wife, Evelyn? Can you look her up and see if she’s posting stuff on her stories with a guy named Mark? I don’t want her to see that I’m looking at her stories. We’re doing a trial separation thing. It’s no big deal.
A decade after Texas passed landmark legislation to address flawed forensics, the courts have refused to apply it as intended.
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