Opinion | A Plague of Willful Ignorance – The New York Times: And the next Trump rally, on Tuesday, will take place in Arizona, where Covid-19 is exploding, but where the Republican governor not only refuses to require mask-wearing but refused until a few days ago to allow local governments …
Opinion | Market Madness in the Pandemic – The New York Times: But the Trump team sees stock prices as the ultimate measure of policy success. Back in 2007 — on the eve of the Great Recession — Larry Kudlow, who is now Trump’s top economist, declared that things were …
Opinion | Donald Trump Is No Richard Nixon – The New York Times: The modern G.O.P., however, is nothing like that. Many of its leading figures — people like Senator Tom Cotton — are every bit as authoritarian and anti-democratic as Trump himself. The rest, with hardly any exceptions, are …
Sundays Deflections So here at the glorified age of retirement that, in this age of global competition and trade, no longer holds the ideal life as it did when retirement and social pensions started in Europe. Now, old people not working are a drain on society and the purely capitalist-greedy-evil …
The myth that the left and the right have eached moved to the fringes is wrong and based on lies. The Democrats have moved right along with the GOP, to the extent that quite a few people thought that Obama was a moderate Republican in practice. The country continues to …
