Vivek Ramaswamy: A Troll for Our Times
What’s Vivek Ramaswamy doing in the 2024 race? Picking bits of attention from the teeth of Donald Trump.
What’s Vivek Ramaswamy doing in the 2024 race? Picking bits of attention from the teeth of Donald Trump.
Whether he’s skewering Republicans or Democrats, Jon Richards always has a sharp eye for the political hypocrisy of the moment.
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Trump’s new company is an invitation for bribes and corruption.
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Scott Pruitt’s Anti-Science Raid ; Big Tech’s Big Hearing in Washington ; Saudi-Led Airstrikes Kill More in Yemen …and More Picks 11/1
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How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism ; Saudi Govt’s Global Campaign to Silence Its Critics …and More Picks 1/16
Another massacre in Syria, more rush to blame the side Western governments oppose, followed by corrections. Journalists owe the public better, more careful reporting.
Washington’s cyber-spies haven’t been resting on their laurels. Computer security researchers have uncovered a powerful new malware built for spying. And its targets are far from the usual national security threats that intelligence agencies say they need to watch.
Why the US withdrawal does not mean peace for Iraq….here’s the historical context
Scrutinize one day’s helping of headlines and story summaries, read between the lines, and you begin to see why our problems never get solved.