Author: Daniel snow
Trump’s flatterers are sacrificing more than just their dignity. Source link
Hamas launched a murderous attack that provoked the absolute devastation of Gaza, the deaths of around 70,000 people, the destruction of that society, functionally, the wrecking of Israel’s image in much of the world. Many, many people believe that what Israel has done in Gaza is a genocide, including a not small proportion of young American Jews. You have seen a number of European countries in particular recognize Palestinian statehood. Is any of that meaningful? It’s more than meaningful. It’s probably the most powerful meaning of the whole affair. Don’t forget, with Oct. 7 and the war in Gaza, the…
The book the two of you wrote is scathingly critical of the way U.S. presidents have approached deals, frameworks, negotiations before now. And one place where you end your analysis is by saying there has been an overreliance on technocratic rationality. And in this way, Trump seems to fit the kind of figure you are talking about better than the people who have come before him. He doesn’t care that much about either the Israelis or the Palestinians. He would like a Nobel Peace Prize of anything. He is not unwilling to use his power against either side. He is…
Readers, many with Parkinson’s, respond to an article about Sue Goldie, who has the disease. Also: Tears over Trump’s America; losing to China; learning through play. Source link
Argentina receives US Treasury support in currency markets Source link
new video loaded: How Boomers Blew Up the American DreamtranscriptBacktranscriptHow Boomers Blew Up the American DreamBaby boomers had a good run. Now we’re all paying for it.“Hey, boomers!” “It’s easy to wave signs saying, ‘I can’t believe I’m still protesting this [EXPLETIVE]!’ But if you’re looking to hold someone accountable ——” “Own the world you made.” “Protest yourselves.” “Americans born in the decades after World War II were handed the world on a silver platter.” “Cheap college.” “Cheap housing.” “Abundant opportunity.” “The vast majority of you ended up wealthier than your parents.” “And Lord knows it wasn’t because you were…
The postwar generation had a good run. Now we’re all paying for it. Source link
Who lost the debate may be clearer than who won. Source link
Obviously, one of the most controversial decisions that you’ve been involved in so far at the court is the Dobbs decision that overruled Roe v. Wade. The Constitution obviously doesn’t say anything about abortion. There’s no abortion provision in the Bill of Rights or anywhere else, right? Right. Does that just mean from an originalist perspective: Case closed, abortion is left to Congress or left to the states, and that’s all that needs to be said? No, because the Dobbs decision was interpreting the 14th Amendment’s due process clause — which says that no person shall be deprived of life,…
new video loaded: The Supreme Court Is Looking Beyond the Trump EratranscriptBacktranscriptThe Supreme Court Is Looking Beyond the Trump EraWhat do we expect from the Supreme Court and what can it actually do? On “Interesting Times,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Ross Douthat discuss how the court makes decisions, with an eye toward the future, rather than focusing on the moment we live in right now.We’re living through an era when it seems to a lot of observers that Congress is increasingly unwilling to or at least unexcited by the exercise of its own powers. Is that something that enters…