Two Americas and the lost center
Both right and left in the United States (and, perhaps, worldwide) have moved further and further from the "center"
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Thus Donald Trump joined the global conflict on technology
If you have any doubts about the true defining issue of our time, all you have to do is look at the divisions within the Trump Administration itself over economic policy: President Donald Trump is doing what he was elected to do – attack…
Of Nukes and Governments: Taking the Long View on Iran
My sister in West Africa asked if I could help her purchase a video game subscription for her son’s birthday by using her credit card. The game company could detect that she was using a computer in Africa and wouldn’t process an American…
Barack Obama, Conservative
John McCain’s campaign started calling Barack Obama a socialist last fall as a last-ditch attempt to avoid what by then looked to be near-certain defeat. Of course, at that point Obama was surging because the global financial meltdown had…
The impossible breakthrough: a long road from swords to ploughshares
Everyone everywhere these days is decidedly glum that the Middle East isn’t closer to an outbreak of peace. Unlike, say, any other time in the past 50 years. No, make that 5,000. Americans were dismayed by the violence and death in Gaza,…