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by Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American AB: More dialogue on the less than 3% increase in inflation. The July report for consumer prices from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which came out today, showed that prices rose less than 3% in the previous twelve months. Core inflation has fallen to its lowest rate since April 2021. For well over a year, wages have grown faster than inflation. President Joe Biden cheered the news but...

AB: Run down on the Trump – Musk Get Together by Bill Kristol I’m grateful to Andrew for listening to Donald Trump and Elon Musk last night and sparing me that unpleasantness. But I did listen to some of the clips this morning. Here’s my take: Trump’s awful. This is, I acknowledge, not breaking news. Trump’s awfulness has been so obvious for so long, and we now take it so much for granted, that it seems silly or gauche to point it...

“50 Years Ago Today“ by Digsby Digby’s Hullabaloo #OnThisDay Aug. 9, 1974 President Nixon delivers farewell address to staffers: “Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”  pic.twitter.com/p6pQz1AQ6w— CSPAN (@cspan) August 9, 2024 He was a corrupt monster. But at least he wasn’t an...

Noem releases social study standards to burnish U.S. history, AP News SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday released a revised proposal for social studies standards in public schools that lays out a mostly shining vision of American history, after an initial draft of the standards came under heavy criticism last year from conservatives and Native American educators. The Republican governor claimed the new proposed...

Today is the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb. I grew up in Oak Ridge, TN, a city that was founded in secret for the purpose of enriching uranium for atomic bombs. The Hiroshima bomb was a uranium fission atomic bomb. The idea of immolating thousands of civilians was not novel at that point. See, e.g., the Dresden and Tokyo firebombings. Hiroshima was certainly a valid military target.One counterfactual argument is that, had the nuclear bombings...

Not sure if he started to cry while the trump supporters were taking him to task. Must be the heat was to great and he was not armed. “Kyle Rittenhouse” reverses course on not endorsing Trump after online pile-on The Guardian Man who killed activists in 2020 questioned Trump’s gun rights bona fides before backing down in face of hate tweets. Acquitted killer Kyle Rittenhouse announced he would not be supporting Donald Trump’s attempt to...

by Prof. Heather Cox-Richardson Letters from an American Yesterday, from a Harris campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta reporter Tariro Mzezewa noted that the crowd of 10,000 people “was ecstatic. There was chanting, cheering, singing, and dancing for hours in the lead-up to and throughout the event,” Mzezewa wrote today in Slate.  Mzezewa reported that rapper Megan Thee Stallion told the audience “I know my ladies in the crowd love...

The military awarded 20 men its highest honor in the 1890s for their role in the incident, where hundreds were killed or injured. Wind flutters around the peace offerings of tobacco ties that line the fence at the Wounded Knee Memorial on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, on Monday, October 20, 2014. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images)  The Washington Post Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin formally ordered the...

The second part of my book proposal is a chapter outline and summary. I will be doing that on the installment plan, one chapter at a time. Below is a table of contents: 2.0 Marx’s Fetters and the Realm of Freedom: a remedial reading – part 2.0 – Angry Bear 2.1 Ambivalence – Angry Bear 2.2 Der Gefesselte Marx – Angry Bear 2.3 Inversion – Angry Bear 2.4 Alienated labour and disposable time – Angry Bear 2.5 Pauperism and “minus-labour”...

The most economically consequential event of the past decade was the COVID pandemic. It saw countless heroic actions that will be forever unrecognized. Among those who were recognized were Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines. A more controversial figure during that period was Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the NIH Institute of Allergy and...