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Reasons for despair: Why the new “Great Depression” comes from our profound sense of political dread

Reasons for despair: Why the new “Great Depression” comes from our profound sense of political dread

Posted by | Jan 26, 2023

A similar thing happens to me on many mornings lately. My eyes open and I suddenly become aware that I am awake. My mind quickly begins assembling the first few seconds of my day … making plans, organizing my checklist, when a terrible interruption breaks in and I remember: Yes, that unhinged madman was actually our President. And yes, he and his administration really planned a violent insurrection that nearly toppled our Government, simply because he could not admit that he lost an election. That really happened. And what is worse, is that it feels like he is going...

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The 2022 election cycle saw cracks in Black voter support for Democratic candidates

The 2022 election cycle saw cracks in Black voter support for Democratic candidates

Posted by | Jan 26, 2023

Black voters have been a steady foundation for Democratic candidates for decades, but that support appeared to show a few cracks in the 2022 elections. Republican candidates were backed by 14% of Black voters, compared with 8% in the last midterm elections four years ago, according to AP VoteCast, an extensive national survey of the electorate. In Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp more than doubled his support among Black voters to 12% in 2022 compared with 5% four years ago, according to VoteCast. He defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams both times. If that boost can be sustained, Democrats could face...

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What America Denies: The racial myths and fabrications that Whiteness tells itself

What America Denies: The racial myths and fabrications that Whiteness tells itself

Posted by | Jan 26, 2023

On November 8, my daughter, Samantha Sencer-Mura, a professional educator, became the first Japanese American elected as a representative from her district to the Minnesota State Legislature. And yet the story of our family and community is not necessarily one of democratic celebration. In 1898, my grandfather came here from Japan, forbidden by laws to become a citizen or own property. During WWII, my parents and their families were imprisoned by the United States government in concentration camps placed throughout desolate areas of the American West. My parents were natural-born citizens from Seattle and Los Angeles, 11 and 15...

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Scrutiny of Orthodox Churches more than tug-of-war for spiritual independence of the Ukrainian soul

Scrutiny of Orthodox Churches more than tug-of-war for spiritual independence of the Ukrainian soul

Posted by | Jan 25, 2023

After its searches of holy sites belonging to Ukraine’s historic Orthodox church, the nation’s security agency posted photos of evidence it recovered, which included rubles, Russian passports and leaflets with messages from the Moscow patriarch. Supporters and detractors of the church have debated whether such items are innocuous, or increase suspicions that the church is a nest of pro-Russian propaganda and intelligence-gathering. What is unambiguous are other photos shared by the agency, known as the SBU, posted as recently as December 7 — some showing an armed Ukrainian officer standing outside a church building, others showing brawny, camouflaged officers...

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Monsters of American Capitalism: Trump, Bankman-Fried, and Musk show how greed is a public danger

Monsters of American Capitalism: Trump, Bankman-Fried, and Musk show how greed is a public danger

Posted by | Jan 22, 2023

If 2022 presented any single lesson, it was the social costs of greed. Capitalism is premised on greed but also on guardrails — laws and norms — that prevent greed from becoming so excessive that it threatens the system as a whole. Yet the guardrails cannot hold when avarice becomes the defining trait of an era, as it is now. Laws and norms are no match for the possibility of raking in billions if you’re sufficiently ruthless and unprincipled. Donald Trump’s tax returns, just made public, reveal that he took bogus deductions to reduce his tax liability all the...

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America’s spy network lags behind rivals in seizing on intelligence data hiding in plain sight

America’s spy network lags behind rivals in seizing on intelligence data hiding in plain sight

Posted by | Jan 20, 2023

As alarms began to go off globally about a novel coronavirus spreading in China, officials in Washington turned to the intelligence agencies for insights about the threat the virus posed to America. But the most useful early warnings came not from spies or intercepts, according to a recent congressional review of classified reports from December 2019 and January 2020. Officials were instead relying on public reporting, diplomatic cables and analysis from medical experts — some examples of so-called open source intelligence, or OSINT. Predicting the next pandemic or the next government to fall will require better use of open...

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