The Department of Defense is shifting $8 billion in previously allocated money to pay troops for the middle of the month as the government shutdown continues. read more
Two years on from Hamas's massacre and with Gaza lying in ruins, the West still refuses to look the real problem in the eye. The obstacle to lasting peace between Israel and Gaza is not a few masked gunmen, but a widespread conviction in the West Bank and Gaza (and on uni campuses and on London's streets) that Israel itself is a mistake to be undone. Until that idea dies, no ceasefire, no summit and no "two-state solution" will hold. read more
But no, really. The facts are on the side of optimism. Many trend lines are upward and to the right Take, for example, the standard of living in much of the world. The World Bank estimates that the global extreme poverty rate was 43% in 1985. It's now less than 9%. That's extraordinary progress over the past 40 years ' largely thanks to capitalism and global trade. Millennials on track to become wealthiest generation. Guess what? Millennials are now financially better off than baby boomers were at the same age, and they're on track to become the wealthiest generation in human history. You know who is likely to surpass them? Their children. read more
Even before the Ivy League upheavals of the past two years, Jewish students had been slowly drifting away from the elite campuses of the Northeast. Now, as some seek respite from the protest movement that erupted after the Israeli response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of southern Israel, the drift has become more like"sorry"an exodus. And selective colleges outside the Northeast, sensing an intensifying disdain for Ivy League schools among Jewish teens and their parents, are tripping over one another to recruit these students. read more
Fleetwood Mac was one of the few older bands that I felt had staying power into the 1990s and 2000s.
"So why do you seem to support the party that spends like drunken sailors on golden ballrooms and private jets instead of the one that constantly lowers deficits and wants the kind of programs that Germany has?"
I don't know what party you seem to think I support. Neither party is even remotely fiscally responsible, although it seems that the Dems have chosen to adopt that mantle. Trump's populist policies are more like Dennis Kucinich or Huey Long than they are a fiscal conservative. And the last fiscally conservative prez this country had was Bill Clinton. That said, the Dems have cast a wide net, that has caught up populists on it's own side. Very unfortunate.
If you want to know what sort of politician I would support, Google Jake Auchincloss. He's a Dem, but depending on what flavor of Dem you are, you'll either love him or hate him.