For many younger Americans, this is the first U.S. war in the Middle East. Here’s how we got here.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
When L’État C’est Trump, the U.S. Goes in for State Capitalism
It’s Trump, not Mamdani, who’s having government take over businesses.
Posted inAmerica and the World
While Gutting USAID, Marco Rubio Quietly Saved Cuban Regime Change Programs
The longtime anti-communist saw programs that support overthrowing the Cuban government restored after they were initially cut off.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Director of National Intelligence Quietly Releases Corruption Report
Intelligence chief forced to disclose widespread government corruption … in China.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Cold War Kids
Apple’s hit show ‘Severance’ was originally about the class struggle; Season 2 stifles that in favor of corporate crisis management.
Posted inTAP
Guess What, America? We’ve Been on the Wrong Side All Along!
Today on TAP: Democracies are out. It’s KGB and KKK; now we’re with them all the way!
Posted inPolitics
Elon Musk, General Secretary of DOGE
The richest man on Earth is setting himself up as dictator of the United States.
Posted inPolitics
Crypto-Backed California Republican Attacks Opponent for Owning Crypto
It’s part of a Vietnamese-language red-baiting campaign by Rep. Michelle Steel, who faces a stiff challenge in California’s 45th Congressional District against veteran and pharmacy owner Derek Tran.
Posted inBooks
Red Weather Vanes
Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.