Tag Archives: US Politics

Matt Taibbi talks some sense about unending war, and then warns about the endgame. We’re about to have a very graphic demonstration of the near-total uniformity of the political class when it comes to the military and its role. The war party is ready for a coming-out party. Impeachment and removal is on the table with a Democratic House and a GOP Senate dominated by the bipartisan war party.Rolling StoneWe Know How Trump’s War Game Ends Matt Taibbi

Though pundits have been scrambling to find new and inventive ways to describe the extraordinary nature of this year’s midterm elections, in one respect they’re just like the 2014, 2010, and 2006 contests: they’re the most expensive on record. Money has poured, in particular, into Democratic candidates’ coffers, with mediagenic figures like Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke collecting massive amounts from out-of-state donors. Thomas Ferguson is the leading scholar of money in American...

Economist Stephanie Kelton advised Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. She tells Planet America why he could become the next president of the United States. ABC News (Australia)Bernie 2020? Planet America interviews Stephanie Kelton

The debt limit in the United States is currently not an object of worry, but it represents one possible avenue to default. From the perspective of a non-American, it is rather difficult to understand how such a strange custom could arise. This article outlines very briefly the history of the debt limit, and then moves to discuss the risks associated with it. This issue underlines the argument that default risk in floating currency sovereigns is political risk, not financial.... Bond...

Journalists simply follow ratings. The Kardashians have a huge following. When you see a woman who is a parody of a star on the Kardashians, you’ve got to put her on to attract viewers. I tune in for her like I don’t for Elizabeth Warren or Paul Ryan because she’s simply so goshdarn funny. It’s the Kardashian-type funny but it’s still entertaining. Alexandria the Great Ocasio-Cortez. The "younger generation" is about being natural and part off that means "not politically correct," let...

Notice who gets all the most desirable (and expensive) property. There are the areas that pay most of the taxes based on income and wealth distribution. See the post for other "strange maps" and stats. Big Think How to split the USA into two countries: Red and Blue Frank Jacobs

In Total, Almost Half of the Newly Elected Congressional Representatives Are Not White Men. Those Changes Come Almost Entirely From Democrats; Republican Members-Elect Are All White Men Except for One Woman. **** LGBT breakthroughs include Democrat members-elect Sharice Davids (D.-Kan.), the first LGBT Kansan elected to Congress, and Kyrsten Sinema (D.-Ariz.), the first openly bisexual person ever elected to the U.S. Senate. The first Muslim women were elected to the House: Ilhan Omar...

Strongest evidence yet of a Blue Wave. Orange County has traditionally been rock-solid Republican and a conservative stronghold. On the other hand, it could only be a rejection of the Trump GOP and a vote for the bipartisan Establishment over it.SlateDemocrat Declared Winner in Orange County House Race, Marking a Clean Democratic Sweep of the Onetime Conservative Stronghold Elliot Hannon

Already backpedaling on campaign rhetoric.  After they won their primaries, some young progressives curbed their pro-Palestine rhetoric. Now they are in Washington getting oriented. Next up: early test votes in the new year sponsored by the pro-Israel lobby, writes As`ad AbuKhalil. Consortium News Newly-Elected Progressives Confront AIPAC Test As’ad AbuKhalil | Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, StanislausSee also at Consortium NewsAnother...

A new study reveals how the wealthy engage in ‘stealth politics’: quietly advancing unpopular, inequality-exacerbating, highly conservative policies... How can this be so? If it is true, why aren’t voters aware and angry about it?The answer is simple: billionaires who favor unpopular, ultraconservative economic policies, and work actively to advance them (that is, most politically active billionaires) stay almost entirely silent about those issues in public. This is a deliberate choice....