Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Judd Legum discusses how Donald Trump's corruption includes such blatant market manipulation as buying stocks then using speeches to promote the companies involved. -…
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Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Samantha Hancox-Li discusses the need to ensure the rampant violence and corruption of the second Trump term is met with prosecutions, rather than another…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Michael Mechanic examines the new depths of corruption being reached by the Trump regime in using public money to reward his violent supporters.…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Catherine Rampell highlights how Donald Trump's economy is divided starkly between profiteering insiders and exploited chumps. Andrew Feinberg reports on Trump's plans to issue…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- David Lurie is rightly appalled by the Trump regime's nihilism, combining insatiable greed for whatever it can seize with a willingness to destroy…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Brian Beutler writes that the events of Super Bowl weekend show how Donald Trump - even with the support of most of the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Seva Gunitsky discusses how the U.S. is committing hegemonic suicide. Simon Tisdall is about as optimistic as one can be about the Trump regime…
Above and beyond the rule of law
Gordon Wilson should have been Premier of British Columbia. Instead, Vancouver power brokers of the 1990s wanted a more tractable person waiting to be Premier. Gordon Campbell replaced Wilson as…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Cathy Young and Cas Mudde each discuss how the Trump regime's "national security strategy" is based on pushing cronyism and bigotry over democracy and…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jonathan Freedland discusses how the Trump regime is systematically corrupting law, government and morality alike, while A.R. Moxon discusses the challenges of trying to…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Reich weighs in on the absolute moral rot within the Trump regime and its corporate cronies. Bill McKibben points out that the…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Trenz Pruca examines how tax policy biased toward the wealthy has exacerbated the U.S.' already-toxic economic inequality. And Dean Baker interviews Joseph Stiglitz about…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Marisa Kabas discusses the moral rot in corporate, access-based media - which in turn looks to be a contributor to the decline of human…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Moira Doneghan writes that the Jeffrey Epstein e-mails released over the past week provide a window into the anti-morality of the wealthy and…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Catarina Saraiva and Jaewon Kang warn that the U.S. economy is a Jenga tower in which pieces needed to support the middle class…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Coyne recognizes that there's no point in pretending that trade negotiations with the U.S. under the control of a mad king can…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Liz Dye writes that the only insurrection occurring in the U.S. is the Trump regime's attempt to overthrow democracy. Jeremy Berg highlights the need…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Stephen Marche writes that Canada is finding its voice in response to the U.S.' threats and bad faith under the Trump regime - at…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Noah Berlatsky discusses how Donald Trump is imposing a recession on America at large while dispensing obscene riches for his cronies, while Mona…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Max Fawcett discusses how renewable energy will power the future despite the attempts of oil tycoons and their pet politicians to keep us…