I was going to publish my post about police violence in the US today, but Schumer and Pelosi released a statement about DACA last night, so I figured that I should make a quick point about this instead. According to…
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A few days ago, the New York Times published yet another story about the allegations that Trump’s campaign had colluded with Russia during thee election, which has since then resulted in massive hysteria in the media. It may have been…
Sean Trende wrote a very good piece about the lessons we should draw from Ossoff’s failure in Georgia. (As I noted before, Trende is one of the most interesting political commentators in the US. In fact, if you should read…
As you know, McConnell finally unveiled the Republican health care bill in Senate, which was immediately described as genocide by liberals. (I say that in jest, but I have no doubt that some people will actually say that, if they…
The Nation published a piece about the history of Modern Monetary Theory. I’m very skeptical about MMT, but I’ve been meaning to read some of the literature about it for some time now. If you know a good introduction, please share…
The word “entrée” is used to mean something like appetizer in France, yet in the US it’s used to mean something like “main dish”, i. e. pretty much the opposite. I have always been very puzzled by that, but Nora Matland…
Schumer announced last week that Democrats would filibuster Gorsuch’s confirmation, which is a remarkably stupid decision. Since he was nominated in replacement of Scalia, Gorsuch wouldn’t fundamentally change the ideological balance of the Supreme Court. This means that, if Schumer…
Justin Reynolds tells the story of how the Soviet Union almost created the Internet but didn’t. He is getting his information from a book by Benjamin Peters, about a project under the Soviet Union to use a network of mainframes to…
Trump apparently decided to dump Abrams, who there won’t be Deputy Secretary of State, which is a very good news. Of course, this happy development has nothing to do with the activity of the opposition, who was far too busy opposing…