Trump has mandated a Mission Impossible: getting rid of paper checks for Treasury receipts and payments by September 30
Read more...Trump’s Constitution-trampling has historical predecents. Where might we be headed?
Read more...Having barely started, the US-Russia negotiaions are already going a bit pear shaped.
Read more...Republicans find DOGE’s actions are not universally popular. US courts have begun disallowing cancellation of contracts and terminations
Read more...I hate to put on my cynic’s hat, but I see a weird childlike faith in daddy figures behind the hope the the good daddy, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, will stop the mad bad dad Donald Trump. The other archetypal story line at work is the hero’s journey, with Roberts as the hero, […]
Read more...The Democratic Party’s slow-motion suicide continues.
Read more...How Trump and his allies use crypto to rig the rules of the game in their favor and fleece rubes.
Read more...The Democratic Deficit is one reason why the EU is perceived to be failing; but there are others such as too much power being concentrated in one unelected institution and a lack of transparency
Read more...OGE is turning out to be as reckless and wantonly destructive as its fiercest critics warned.
Read more...Concerns that RFK Jr.’s MAHA may set back food safety, particularly with regard to pathogens.
Read more...The pending continuing resolution has provision that hand key Congressional spending and oversight to Trump. Call to oppose it.
Read more...Labour goes all in for cutting social spending, first for the disabled, almost certainly with the excuse that it’s needed to fund rearming.
Read more...This week’s Europe/UK focused Coffee Break: German and Romanian election chicanery, UK snooping, why Western pols believe Ukraine can win.
Read more...DOGE is up to even more no good than you imagined.
Read more...The backstory of how the EU has come to fall short of its considerable potential.
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