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America’s Slide into Authoritarianism, as seen from TED 2025
Published: April 16, 2025 18:08
Historians (if they exist in the future and any records of this period survive) will note this month as one where the United States slipped fully into authoritarianism. Incompetence, luck, and real leadership may yet intervene, but we have already crossed…
Tariffs Expose Rifts in Fragile MAGA Coalition
Published: April 7, 2025 22:43
As the world continues to digest Donald Trump’s haphazard announcement of wide-ranging tariffs that threaten to upend the global economy, reshape capital markets, and decimate individual retirement accounts, one vulnerability is becoming clear: the MAGA…
“20 Lessons on Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder — Read by John Lithgow
Published: April 4, 2025 01:07
John Lithgow reads the book 20 Lessons on Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. Source
Democracy Not Piracy — Opposing Narratives for ’26 & ’28
Published: April 3, 2025 00:47
Approaching the national “Hands Off” Rallies on Saturday, April 5 and then the “First 100 Days” benchmark, Americans deserve a theory-of-the-case to stop Donald Trump from ruining our lives and rights. I. Abraham Lincoln is best remembered of course for…
Trump Administration’s Letter to Columbia
Published: March 28, 2025 17:32
Letter from the Trump Administration to Columbia University:  Dr. Katrina Armstrong Interim President Columbia University Office of the President 202 Low Library 535 W. 116 St., MC 4309 New York, NY 10027 David Greenwald Claire Shipman Co-Chairs Columbia…
From the Letty Cottin Pogrebin Newsletter: Antisemitism
Published: March 28, 2025 16:35
From issue #171 of the Letty Cottin Pogrebin Newsletter on Substack  * Jews duped again. Under the sardonic title, “As an American Jew, I Feel Completely Reassured for My Safety Now That Trump Has Targeted the Epicenter of American Antisemitism, Columbia…
We, Children of Babel: A Reflection on the Scourge of Neo-Nationalism
Published: March 28, 2025 16:30
Flying home to America from East Africa a few days ago and watching television coverage of the ICE raids, detentions and deportations, I have had nationalism on my mind. As nationalist rhetoric pulses ever more fervently through American political culture…
Katie Couric: Why We Should Be Worried About Elon Musk
Published: March 12, 2025 16:39
Katie Couric spoke to the U.S. National Editor and columnist Edward Luce at the Financial Times about Elon Musk’s unprecedented power in the White House.  Source
Senator Claude Malhuret on the End of American Democracy
Published: March 12, 2025 16:38
Senator Claude Malhuret on the End of American Democracy, speaking in the French Senate, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.  Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen, Ministers, my dear colleagues. Europe is at a critical turning point in its history.…
The Cost of Betrayal
Published: March 12, 2025 16:36
Betrayal triggers the strongest emotions in all of us: rage, despair and the longing for revenge. Betrayals in high politics trigger much the same emotions as in private life. The resentment and bitterness that whole peoples can feel when they are betrayed…