“Officials in Washington and Beijing don’t agree on much these days, but there is one thing on which they see eye to eye: the contest between their two countries will enter a decisive phase in the 2020s. This will be the decade of living dangerously. No matter what strategies the two sides p[...]
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Can politics return to normalcy?
“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke out against ‘loony lies and conspiracy theories’ this week, calling them a ‘cancer for the Republican Party,’ while praising Rep. Liz Cheney, a GOP leader who voted to impeach Trump. … “McConnell [...]
Conversation with a grunt
Military writer Bing West (photo, left; bio here) discusses Afghanistan, China, defense spending, why Jim Mattis won’t talk about Trump, and more. Worth reading if you’re interested in military affairs, and even if you’re not. Edited transcript of a radio show, fairly short, and ve[...]
Republicans, listen up!
You’re not going to have a political party if you don’t straighten up. Less than a month after the Capitol insurrection, “lots and lots of people are leaving the Republican Party.” More than 10,000 Arizonans dropped their Republican affiliation last month. Another 10,000 in [...]
Biden looking at student debt relief
During the campaign and since, Biden has supported debt relief for student borrowers. There’s a debate going on within his administration about what his authority to act is, without legislation by Congress, and what shape student borrower relief might take. (Read story here.) Right now, itR[...]
Greene: What’s at stake
Vox explains: “Democrats have pushed for consequences for the first-term representative, who has supported or suggested, in no particular order: the QAnon conspiracy theory; Parkland and 9/11 denial; the killing of Democratic leaders; and the idea that 2018 forest fires were started by a Jew[...]
China vs. Taiwan
China has been preparing for decades to invade the island democracy, which it claims as its sovereign territory, and recently has sharply escalated its threats and airspace incursions against Taiwan; with the U.S. preoccupied at home, is conflict brewing? Read story here. Secretary of State Antho[...]
A brief history of African-American heroes
From Revolutionary War days to the present, many African-Americans have given their all for a country that often was reluctant to acknowledge them. While the Tuskegee Airmen are widely known, thanks in part to Hollywood, how many people know the story of the Buffalo soldiers? Or the Harlem Hellfight[...]
Did some GOPers just blink?
If so, welcome back to the civilized world, boys, because we need two competitive parties in this country — to keep each other honest, and keep our politics from going off the rails. “Rep. Liz Cheney, under fire from … Trump” and the batshit-crazies who believe his election l[...]
When Capitol rioters didn’t vote, what does that tell us?
“They were there to ‘Stop the Steal’ and to keep the President they revered in office, yet records show that some of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol did not vote in the very election they were protesting,” a CNN article published on Monday, February 1, 2021, says. Read[...]