The lessons no one learned from the World Central Kitchen massacre(s)
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Posted inPolitics
Memorial Day Eclipsed by the Impending Trump Parade
Tanks! Trump! Helicopters! Trump! Bombast! Trump!
Posted inWorking in America
Inside the VA’s War on Unions
How some (but not all) VA unions became a national-security threat
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Has the VA Stymied a Profession It Helped Create?
Physician assistants could help with the Veterans Administration’s staffing challenges. But though the VA pays for training scholarships, PAs have found it hard to get work there.
Posted inUncategorized
Pete Hegseth May Be Too Incompetent Even for Trump
Turns out Fox News loudmouths are bad at running the military.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Euro Can Replace the Dollar
Europe has a potential golden opportunity to claim the global reserve currency and get a free military rearmament to boot.
Posted inPolitics
North Carolina’s Equal-Opportunity Voter Suppression
A Republican’s lawsuits in the last remaining race in Election 2024 open up new pathways for voting rights threats.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Mad King Trump’s War on the Troops
The administration is vindictively hacking away at veterans’ benefits.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Germany Finally Gets Over Austerity
Nothing like a military crisis to break the fetish for balanced budgets.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Trump’s Simple Racism
The real targets of the war on DEI include civil rights enforcement, federal outlays that serve Black communities, and Black workers in and out of government.