Megan McArdle said in the Washington Post: If we do [as Singapore and Hong Kong have done], we can not only keep our hospitals from overloading but also buy researchers time to develop vaccines and therapies. … we are all in this together…
Americans hate chaotic, televised political conventions. Conventions are best when they are reality television – pretend contests.
Mann argues that European North Americans and the Native American Haudenosaunee learned from each other. Americans were becoming a people who valued freedom and rejected obedience. He reminds us that European Americans began their rebellion dressed up like Indians to dump tea in Boston Harbor.
We were shocked. Donald Trump allowed Turkey to attack the Kurdish militia that had created a mini state in the northeast of Syria.
This Letter was prepared a few days before Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of an impeachment process.
Nothing in Johnson’s past career in journalism or as mayor of London provides any shred of evidence that he is fit for office as Prime Minister.
Evangelical Christians, Jews, and Israel are an issue. Some Republicans, the President included, believe Evangelical support for Israel will wean American Jews from the Democratic Party. They shouldn’t count on it. We should understand, however, that Evangelical Christian support for Israel goes back a ways and is international.
Democrats are accused of a kind of elitism. Meritocratic elites. Members of a meritocratic elite who, perhaps, don’t quite deserve their place. Did they get a head start in the race?Did they get a head start because they were rich? Were their families members of a financial elite. Multi-millionaires. Billionaires. People who really give you a head start.
THE REPORT LEAVES OPEN THE POSSIBILITY OF IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS BY CONGRESS OR INDICTMENTS AT A TIME WHEN PROSECUTORS ARE NOT CONSTRAINED BY JUSTICE DEPARTMENT POLICIES PROHIBITING INDICTMENTS OF A SITTING PRESIDENT.