There’s been some suggestion that Donald Trump entered Republic politics – and eventually ran for president – in order to perpetrate an affinity scam. By that I don’t mean he was
Rita Konaev has a great piece at the Washington Post on the Trump administration’s new policy for international students. If this policy had been enacted when I was an international student, it
The malign incompetence of the Trump administration has already, by some estimates, killed at least 100,000 Americans. The US has failed to contain the pandemic, and CDC officials are increasingly pes
I am not a psychologist. I understand that, even for professionals, remote diagnoses are deeply problematic. I recall how Republicans insisted that Obama was a narcissist because, first, his speechwri
Why did the Payment Protection Program become a mechanism for the upward distribution of wealth? The New York Times provides one possible answer: the big banks who were best prepared to disburse funds
Scott already posted about Trump’s decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). Not long after Trump announced his decision, Beijing offered its own moral and financial su
There are a variety of forces pushing the United States toward the exit for global hegemony, but none is quite so frustrating as the Trump administration’s simple abdication from exercising lead
For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, know that the compilation below is remarkable – and even more so when one looks closely at the dates. What can we say? There’s no bottom to the