By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Key dates coming fast now, so I […]
Read more...Voter disenfranchisement via shuttering polling sites.
Read more...Germany’s long-standing practice of muscling the European Union to serve its own ends now risks dissolution and a banking system crisis.
Read more...Boris Johnson fancies that the UK’s future lies with the US. Good luck with that.
Read more...A moral and practical case against continuing economic sanctions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more...It’s not hard operationally for the government to counter economic fallout from the pandemic. The hard part is ideological baggage.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: National poll, voting during #COVID-19, exit polls vs. computer calculated results, manufacturing, housing, China sends #COVID-19 materiel, retail food, esports, copper, testing the Utah Jazz, 1619 Project controversy, sabotaging techniques in business, Ecstasy, Wodehouse
Read more...Scores of organs — mostly kidneys — are trashed each year and many more become critically delayed while being shipped on commercial airliners, a new investigation finds.
Read more...The Fed just told everyone to assume the brace position.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Time: 8:00PM-10:00PM ET Place: CNN’s studio in Washington, DC Hosts: CNN, CNN en Español, CNN International, and Univision Moderators: CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper; Univision’s Ilia Calderón. Candidate line-up: Joe Biden (former Vice President) Bernie Sanders (Senator from Vermont) (I can’t find which candidate will be on the right […]
Read more...A predator needs many enablers. We only need to turn one.
Read more...Exxon flares more gas than any other company in the Permian Basin, America’s most prolific oil field, emitting massive volumes of greenhouse gases as well as toxic pollution that fouls the air in West Texas.
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