SNAP, the Nation’s Largest Food Aid Program, Is About To See Cuts. Here’s What You Should Know.
A court ruling will force the Administration to use emergency funds for SNAP benefits. But the money will run out in weeks. What then?
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A Few Thoughts About the Russian End Game in Ukraine and the Risk of Losing the Peace
New musings on what sort of conclusion to the war Russia might impose, and specifically, how Russia reduces its security risks.
Read more...Rage Against the ICE Machine
Anti-ICE protestors are showing signs of developing effective strategies and tactics.
Read more...The Stage Is Set For a US-Instigated Security Dilemma Between the Eurasian Rimland & Heartland
The US and its major European and Asian allies have embarked on a Eurasia contaiment strategy. What are its prospects?
Read more...Nationalism – Good or Bad?
Richard Murphy argues that it’s long past time to stop equating all nationalism with Nazism and instead embrace a form of nationalism based on the politics of care.
Read more...Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers’ Credit Scores From Medical Debt
More wanton Trump Administration immiseration of the non-rich, here by blocking state efforts to bar credit reporting of medical debt.
Read more...How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System
Upon reading this collection of essays (the title of this post) from Wolfgang Streeck and then contemplating our current world, The Second Coming of William Butler Yeats comes to mind: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon […]
Read more...How Tariffs Hurt the Ones You Love
Investors believe that companies and industries in “red” areas will be hit harder by tariff blowback than those in “bluer” regions.
Read more...Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy
CPI for food at home has surged by 30% since January 2020.
Read more...Exposing the Hidden US History Fueling Tariffs, Shutdowns, and National Breakdown
Political slugfests and current controversies show how flattering tales from US history undermine the pursuit of its citizens’ interests.
Read more...Rob Urie: Democrats Who Created the Bad Status Quo Won’t Become Saviors
The Democrats as a and even the reason US policies are so contrary to the interests of most of the public.
Read more...Reward and Retribution Is the New U.S. Policy for Latin America
Reward and retribution is the U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. Dollars for allies (Argentina) and bombs for challengers (Venezuela)
Read more...The American Augean Stables — How Corruption Has Amended the Constitution
The U.S. shadow government is not a big fan of democracy.
Read more...‘We’re Not Going to Forget’: Pritzker Warns Trump Enforcers Miller, Homan, Bovino That Immunity Not Forever
Governor Pritzker has gotten out of bed to threaten Team Trump over ICE abuses. But this still amounts to a wet noodle lashing.
Read more...The Trump-Putin Phone Call: US Makes Process Concession to Russia and Trump Softens Stance on Tomahawks.
A reading of the Trump and Kremlin statements shows that most commentators are out over their skis as to what the Trump-Putin phone call portends.
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