Scott already posted about Viktor Orbán's opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's not hard to understand the backlash among reactionary populists in former Warsaw Pact countries. The revolutions.
I am "attending" the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association next week. By "attending" I mean that I am cancelling my tickets and my hotel room and participating.
My wife likes to mock claims that Trump can't possibly be a fascist by quipping that, "if it's not 1930s Europe, then it's just sparkling authoritarianism." In the last few.
We are in that point of the election season when third party diehards make the false claim that the Republicans were a third party. Of course this is at Counterpunch..
I do not understand this whole line of thought in the last few months that the Trump phenomenon is the end of the Republican Party. Michael Cohen writes an obituary.
On March 20, 1854, the Republican Party was founded at a meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin. Ideas of labor, both free and slave, were central to Republican Party ideology and would.
I'll have more to say about Corey Robin's assessment of Scalia in The Reactionary Mind soon. In the meantime, this insight (p.25) made me think of Newt's recent radical attacks.
If there's a choice to be made between reducing grotesquely high unemployment and doing nothing in order to improve our political fortunes, the Federal Reserve must do the latter.
