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Franco Modigliani famously quipped that he did not think that unemployment during the Great Depression should be described, in an economic model, as a “sudden bout of contagious laziness”. Quite. For the past thirty years we have been debating whether to use classical real business cycle models (RBC), or their close cousins, modern New Keynesian […]
When underdogs fight back “When people feel uncertain, they’d rather have someone strong and wrong than weak and right,” President Bill Clinton advised Democratic leaders in 2002. Enter Donald John Trump, the seven deadly sins on two legs. No way would Americans vote for that walking atrocity, I thought in 2016. Hoo-boy, did I call that wrong. So did Bill’s wife Hillary. Americans chose strong and wrong. The pivot point in the Hero’s Journey comes when, after refusing the call to adventure, she/he crosses a threshold out of the ordinary world into one of challenge and quest. Young Luke Skywalker crosses that threshold early in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Did President Joe Biden reach one of those pivot points last week? Some think maybe. Reflecting on the 2008 HBO film, Recount, about the 2000 presidential election, Joe Klein writes in The New York Times: Democrats litigate; Republicans fight. Democrats float toward an almost helium-infused state of high-mindedness; Republicans see politics as a no-holds-barred cage match. President Biden’s pugilistic State of the Union address last week may represent a new direction.
A new tool lets migrants in the UK know when and how they can vote - navigating the confusing patchwork of rules
A source close to the families of two deceased US Special Forces soldiers claims that the Department of Defense intentionally mischaracterized their deaths.
The post Source Claims DoD Covered-up Deaths of US Special Forces Soldiers in 2020 Iranian Strike on US Airbase appeared first on MintPress News.
The place: Washington. The date: April 14, 1954. The question before the Security Board of the Atomic Energy Commission: whether Dr Robert Oppenheimer may safely be allowed continued access to secret information. Oppenheimer is testifying for the third day running. He is under cross-examination (the official record uses this term) by Roger Robb, counsel for […]
A revitalised Europe wide white supremacist movement is growing in the UK, gaining recruits through social media and online gaming
Refugees from Chinese oppression in Britain also believe the Government's crackdown on face masks at demonstrations opens them up to reprisals
A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.
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When Shane Gillis performed his monologue on Saturday Night Live last month, he opened with a joke about why he was previously fired from the show. “Don’t look that up, please,” he says with a smile. “It’s fine, don’t even worry about it.”
If you do look it up, you’ll come across Seth Simons’s reporting for the Los Angeles Times, which details Shane’s long history of using slurs against Jewish, Chinese, and Black people. In one podcast episode, Shane shares his enthusiastic support for Gavin McInnes, the founder of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist militant organization that promotes political violence. In another, Shane says, “If the blood rushes to my head, all my blood’s racist. I do have racist blood.”
AIPAC has become the key force against progressives in Democratic primaries, but a new coalition is seeking to protect the party’s left flank.
The post The Left Is Finally Building a Response to AIPAC appeared first on The Intercept.
And still great at doing stuff Watching Ryan Gosling and the Barbie cast perform “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars last night was the highlight of the wekend. Enjoy. Digby has a viral moment from late in the show in the queue. Come back soon. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● For The Win, 5th Edition is ready for download. Request a copy of my free countywide GOTV planning guide at ForTheWin.us.
Fady Joudah’s poems are exquisite yet ungovernable, rebelliously innovative yet attuned to a broad range of traditions. They spoke to me long before I had the…
Karam Bales delves into a conference with ties to a Russian backed anti-gender network
Oppenheimer
There’s been a half-finished copy of Robert Caro’s biography of LBJ on your bedside table for the past five years. But maybe THIS year, you’ll finally get around to finishing it. You’re also likely a white male between the ages of thirty-nine and sixty-five.
The Dark Knight
You were a psychology major in college, hence your fascination with the Joker’s “dog chasing cars” MO. There’s so much meaning hiding behind the nihilism, you insist. The film’s existential dread is reflected in the WHY SO SERIOUS? T-shirt you bought off Redbubble.
Insomnia
There’s a Scandinavian darkness in your soul. You eat most dinners alone to the sound of Bon Iver before retiring to your hard, non–memory foam mattress. Either that or you said Insomnia in the interest of not seeming too basic by going with Oppenheimer or Dark Knight.
As a child, the Library of Birmingham was my favourite place in the world. My mum, seeing my best efforts to gather up five or six books at any one time, had to enforce a strict ‘only take what you can carry’ rule. With the two books my little arms could manage I’d breeze through […]
Sunak's Government has been called to face a UN committee over the shocking conditions faced by some disabled people after years of austerity
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Kimmel/Trump, Ryan Gosling, John Cena/Oscars, Doctor Who, True Detective, Peacemaker, Zack Snyder, and more!
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The mega-droughts in Spain and the US are a portent of a gathering global water crisis. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th March 2024 There’s a flaw in the plan. It’s not a small one: it is an Earth-sized hole in our calculations. To keep pace with the global demand for food, crop […]