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Depending on the breaks A bit over six months ago, President Biden’s June 27 debate with Donald Trump went badly for him. Embarrassingly badly. He looked old, frail. He lost his train of thought. How long had his staff been covering for him? Everyone wanted to know. It was its own mini scandal and led to Biden dropping out of the race a few weeks later. The country elected Donald Trump instead in November. Then Trump on Tuesday declared in a press conference that the United States would ethnically cleanse 1.8 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, take “a long-term ownership position” there, and develop the beachfront into a series of Trump-branded resorts. (Trump’s ownership stake was implied.) “Everybody I’ve spoken to [inside his demented head] loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land” and developing it, Trump told a roomful of reporters. It would create thousands of new jobs and be “magnificent,” Trump continued.
Dear Old Man Who Bartered with My Cancer-Patient Daughter at the Community Yard Sale Fundraiser,
Thank you for attending the Alex’s Lemonade Stand community yard sale last Saturday. By “attending,” of course, I mean “looming over my ten-year-old daughter’s card table and haggling over the price of a sequined stuffed seal as if your Social Security payments depended on it.”
I imagine you saw the sign: ALL PROCEEDS DONATED TO CHARITY. The one my daughter painted with her one good hand while still hooked to a chemo pump like she’s the saddest science experiment ever.
Or maybe you noticed the giant cardboard cutout of her: bald head gleaming and feeding tube affixed to her nose like a fashion accessory from the Underworld’s spring/summer collection. The only thing better than having cancer is reminding the whole goddamn neighborhood about it with oversized props.
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Of the principles and themes outlined in this issue, Tribune readers will easily discern. ‘Gastropolitics’ discusses how food matters to socialist politics. Food institutions historic, existing or imagined, are discussed, as well as the transformative urges behind their establishment. Coverage is given to the acceleration of climate catastrophe, where ever-growing prices and the cartelisation of […]
In late September 2024, Hurricane Helene, the deadliest to hit mainland USA since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, struck the Big Bend region of Florida. The damage inflicted by natural disasters in the US is sometimes reported in terms of ‘insured losses’, which in this case ran into the tens of billions, but the human cost […]
In his mid-nineteenth-century prose poem Crowds, the French symbolist Charles Baudelaire declared that it ‘is not given to everyone to take a bath among the multitude’. More than this, he elaborated in the same poem: [E]njoying the crowd is an art; and he only can make, at the expense of the human race, a lively […]
There is an apocryphal story that when asked by US diplomat Henry Kissinger in 1972 what he thought was the impact of the French Revolution, the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai replied that it was too early to say. It’s a quote that has become a legend, flattering Western preconceptions about taciturn, patient Eastern wisdom as […]
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Can the Western museum be decolonised? This is the question posed by Françoise Vergès in A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonising the Museum, which takes its name from French Afro-Caribbean Marxist philosopher Frantz Fanon’s invocation of anti-colonial practice in his influential 1961 book The Wretched of the Earth. In her book, first published in France […]
Nothing in the Gay Hussar’s long life was quite like the leaving of it. There we were, the bedraggled survivors of many a long lunch/dinner/afternoon under the table, some of us from the departing rear guard unit, the ‘Goulash Co-operative’, set up to save the famous restaurant from closure or, worse, being turned into some […]
One afternoon in April 2022, Josh Saltzman, the owner of a sports bar in Washington DC, opened his inbox to find what looked like a french fry price-fixing conspiracy. Saltzman had received a notice from his bar’s food distributor that effective 4 April, the four major suppliers of frozen potato products, which sell products like […]
I would like to create a room. A room for when I feel heavy. When I must sit down and be restored. Yes, the food and all that, all that nonsense. Of course there is food, and there’s a glass of wine. But there is company. Good company cannot be bought; it can only be […]
Faint murmurings of renewal are stirring the still reservoirs of hope on Labour’s fragmented left. Talk of a new party is spreading — again. The mood — let’s stay realistic — is evident in discrete sectors of the party membership, among disenchanted MPs, in the diaspora of expelled or disaffected members, and in several Labour movement grouplets, at […]
Last year’s Indian general election was humbling for the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP, which had been boasting that it could win 400 or more seats, instead saw its seat share drop from 303 in 2019 to 240 this year and was obliged to form […]
The investigation was launched after Byline Times revealed the charity had potentially breached UK law
Attendees at the Hope Not Hate event in Westminster heard that Reform now “presents a genuine threat” to the UK
I am devastated by the heartbreaking news of the tragic death of Michael Burawoy, a preeminent, inspiring, and brilliant sociologist, and above all, an extraordinary and gentle human being. What an unfathomable contrast lies between a fleeting, detached report in a local newspaper about a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of an “Oakland resident” […]
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Trump told reporters that he wants to expel “all” Palestinians from Gaza — not just during a period of reconstruction, but permanently. The post Trump: “The U.S. Will Take Over the Gaza Strip” appeared first on The Intercept. Brian Beutler has some useful thoughts on how to focus as we confront this complicated crisis. He writes: To my mind we have four main kinds of provocation raining down on us: headfakes, attacks on liberal pluralism, policy sabotage, and genuine constitutional crises. In the headfakes category he has Greenland, The Panama Canal and other grandiose ideas that may or may not happen or could just as easily be like the 25% tariffs which make a big splash but end up just being PR moves for Trump to declare victory. The attacks on liberal pluralism are all the heinous assaults on DEI, transgender kids, immigrants etc which makes us want to scream but which he says, and I think he’s right, still fit into the category of normal politics even though they are grotesque, cruel and disgusting which is not unprecedented. He says, and he’s right about this too, that a lot of this is bait to make us focus on that while they destroy the very firmament of our government and democracy. And these are all wedge issues designed to create division among Democrats.
Using Australian tax and survey data, we exploit discrete eligibility cut-offs to estimate the effect of several business investment tax breaks, including tax credits and instant asset write-offs, implemented over the past 15 years. Policies implemented during the global financial crisis increased investment. Responses are larger for unincorporated businesses, possibly reflecting reduced efficacy of investment stimulus under Australia's dividend imputation system. However, we find mostly no evidence of an effect for other investment policies, including those implemented to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
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