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David Brooks, the conservative columnist, asks the question in The New York Times today "What will you do if trump doesn't leave?" He says we need to start thinking now about "a sustained campaign of civic action," like in Hong-Kong or Belarus. He is...

Asked in #Kenosha about systematic racism, #trump responded "You have the anarchists and you have the looters and you have the rioters and all those, you have the agitators and that's what you should be focusing on with your question." #Kenosha #trump...

In his interview with Laura Ingraham, trump described mysterious people secretly pulling Mr. Biden's strings and talked about a plane load of black clad anarchists flying to Washington to disrupt the RNC. "People that you've never heard of" are...

The left wing French economist Thomas Piketty has written a new book that extends his discussion of economic inequality to the non Western world. There has been interest in publishing the book in China, but the Chinese publisher has presented a long list...

There is a very nice op Ed in The New York Times today by David Brooks called "Democrats who rose to the moment." He gives credit not just to Obama but even to Bernie Sanders for their defenses of democracy at the convention. He describes Biden as "goofy...

Trump has said he is cancelling a round of trade talks with China scheduled for next week. He said that this was because of China's behavior with the coronavirus, which he called "not even thinkable." He said "China could have stopped the coronavirus from...

The New York Times has a front page story today called, "More in GOP speak the language of QAnon," the conspiracy theory behind pizzagate. It begins with the fact that the Texas Republican party has unveiled a new slogan, "We are the storm." This is a...

The front page of The New York Times reports that "China and United States once acted like opposites when it came to governing the Internet. Beijing imposed a heavy state hand. It blocked major foreign websites, sheltered Chinese tech firms as they...

Sending in my primary ballot for Massachusetts. I still remember when I was a little boy my mother would take me to the polls to watch her vote and to spend time playing with the mock voting machines. Voting still after all these years puts an excited...

Former senator Claire McCaskill is quoted in The New York Times today about trump, "Outrage fatigue is real. He has worn us out." #trump