Author: Daniel snow
The Trump administration risks squandering the progress it has made in securing the border. Source link
Readers weigh in on the challenges of defining and diagnosing the condition. Source link
Why Congress should take up Insurrection Act reform. Source link
Three Southern Opinion columnists on the region and its outsize role in national politics. Source link
new video loaded: Why America Loves to Hate on the SouthtranscriptBacktranscriptWhy America Loves to Hate on the SouthTressie McMillan Cottom argues that our obsession with Southern culture isn’t just about charm or nostalgia. It’s about reassurance. We romanticize its music, verandas and magnolias, yet, despite the political drift in other states, insist that “at least we’re not the South.”We all get a little Southern when this nation is going fascist is just what it is, right. We all want to consume the romantic version of the South: the verandas, the magnolia trees, the music, the food. To Jamelle’s point, when…
new video loaded: The Trade-Offs of the South’s ‘Yellowstone’-ificationtranscriptBacktranscriptThe Trade-Offs of the South’s ‘Yellowstone’-ificationJamelle Bouie says the South’s appeal isn’t just cheaper living; it’s the power to use wealth to control others. Tressie McMillan Cottom calls it “the ‘Yellowstone’-ification of the country.” But that kind of dominance also means giving up something: the diversity and cultural egalitarianism of cosmopolitan life.I also want to say that part of the allure of the South as a cultural object, and this is getting back to what Tressie said earlier about cost of living, is not simply that things might be cheaper, but that…
Pete Hegseth can’t handle the truth. Source link
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…