U.S. presidential election campaigns have been known to focus on the slogan “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Efforts to explain the behavior of the U.S. government ought to put a little more focus on a different slogan, found in the...
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29 October 2021
A Rotarian has just made me aware that Rotary quietly adopted a policy in June of not investing in weapons companies. This is worth celebrating and encouraging all other organizations to do likewise. Here is the policy, excerpted from a...
13 October 2021
I’ve just read through three of the most boring but potentially most important documents around. One is the War Powers Resolution of 1973 which you...
08 October 2021
A recent article and a recent book have raised this familiar topic anew for me. The article is a super uninformed dud of a hatchet job on Michael Ratner by Samuel Moyn, who accuses Ratner of supporting war by trying to reform and...
07 October 2021
It’s bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a “defense” budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the same is an indication of how deeply the mindsets...
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