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The 51st State
It’s been an eerily calm month. It’s as if everyone is collectively holding their breath ahead of Donald Trump’s January 20th inauguration for his…
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The problem with generalizations
“We live in a troubled time.” “The world has never been more unstable”“The U.S. economy is the strongest it’s been in years”“Europe is facing an…
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Revenge of the crypto bros
Well, it finally happened. Bitcoin hit $100,000 this week, which caps (for now) a stunning runup since Trump won the presidential election.
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November 2024

Neoliberalism didn’t Fail and isn’t Dead, Yet
Remember that famous scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? The one where a man is pushing a cart full of bodies through a village during the plague…
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Come on People...
There is, as usual, much going on in the world that does not revolve around the electoral and partisan peregrinations of the United States.
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A Realignment
We are a week out from the U.S. presidential election. No, it was not a notably large victory for Trump. The popular vote count is not complete, and…
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Well, that happened...
It is hardly a surprise that Trump won the election or that the Republicans gained control of the Senate. It is a surprise that as of this writing it…
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October 2024

The calm before the storm?
“My fear is that groups will not accept the popular vote.… They will proclaim the election fraudulent and rigged and not accept the vote of the people…
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In Praise of Progress
Sometimes, it feels as if the most common riposte to the idea of human progress is “Progress?
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Dumb Tariffs
Tariffs are dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb, and dumber. That was true in 2017 when Donald Trump began discussing tariffs on China as a way of retaliating…
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Missiles Flying
The past days have seen two types of flying missiles: actual and rhetorical.
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September 2024

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