Going to war is now a rational economic choice in Russia's impoverished hinterlands. read more
I wasn't surprised by the prediction " Cheney is campaigning energetically for Harris to defeat Trump " but I was struck that the former vice chair of the Jan. 6 House select committee did not primarily argue that threats to democracy would lift Harris to victory. Rather, she said that in her conversations with independent and undecided voters, what is really moving them into Harris's corner was "what a second Trump term would mean for the women of this country." She specifically cited the draconian Republican bans and limits on reproductive health care and other medical needs that have led to traumatic and disabling injuries for pregnant women in Texas and other states with bans in place. read more
There is a palpable anxiety wailing on the winds of American life right now. More than in any other election in my lifetime, I've been consistently asked by people of all stripes and creeds: "Can Kamala Harris win this thing? Are we going to be OK?" This sentiment is heard over and over from sweaty Democratic operatives who all too often love to run to the press with their woes. read more
"There is little effort to conceal the grim calculus at work."