Can Blue State Resistance Save Us?
I have found it very difficult to write about the current political moment, because of how dispiriting it is. When I get this feeling, I can feel better if I...
Making the Most of Treason: How the Articles of Confederation Won the Revolutionary War
If you are an average American who learned American history in a typical public school or a typical college or university, you probably grew up with a very...
Unchecked and Unbalanced: How Separation of Powers Gave Us Donald Trump
This is the first edition of a new version of my newsletter under the new name, Do-Over. It is the first column that I’m using to launch a book project...
Zohran Mamdani and the Antifascist Democratic Tea Party
On Tuesday night, Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim New York assemblyman from Queens and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won an upset victory in the...
The Assassination in Minnesota Is January 6th with Bullets
About a week and a half ago, on Saturday June 14th, a man impersonating a police officer invaded the homes of two Minnesota politicians and their spouses in...
Why You Should Attend Your Local No Kings Protest
Once again, I’m deviating from my usual news summary format to try something different. This time, I’m encouraging everybody who reads this newsletter to...
The Raid That Was or Wasn't
You haven’t heard from me since May 16, because I was on hiatus for two weeks while I was traveling. However, now that I am back, I’m going to take a...
Friday News Roundup
Donald Trump’s Apartheid Vision for America I look for patterns in Trump’s activities during the week, but this week, it all seems to boil down to white...
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Global Election News The biggest foreign political news this week was the recent landslide electoral victory for Australia’s Labor Party last Saturday. Prime...
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The Revenge of the Polite First, we have some good news. On Monday, Canadian voters went to the polls and provided the center-left Liberal Party and its...
Friday News Roundup
Trump’s Declining Support I advertise my column as an antidote to doomscrolling. Personally, I have found it better for my mental health if I try to process...
Friday News Roundup
If you haven’t done so already, please check out my previous email “Gang Truces and the Axis of Autocracy.” I was originally planning to have it as part of...
Gang Truces and The Axis of Autocracy
Less than six months before the 2024 presidential election, the Biden Administration arrested Cesar Humberto Lopez Larios, a high-ranking leader of the El...
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Donald Blinks on Tariffs Mark Carney, the current interim Prime Minister of Canada, is an extremely strategically shrewd banker. He served as the governor of...
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Trump Self-Inflicted Stupidity on Tariffs Donald Trump’s announcement of massive worldwide tariffs, which he dubbed “Liberation Day,” has already caused an...
Friday News Roundup
Last week, the next to last bullet in my newsletter was about a missile strike in Yemen that left 53 dead. Little did I know that story would be connected to...
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Trump’s Out-of-Control Deportation Machine Lebanese doctor & member of Brown University faculty who specializes in kidney diseases held for deportation by...
Why Does Trump Want to Invade Canada?
Most newspaper coverage about Trump and Canada will say that he wants to “annex” Canada, but I find that excessively euphemistic. Less than 10% of Canadian...
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Trump Foreign Policy Madness Watch In yet another sign that the EU has written off Donald Trump’s foreign policy as sheer lunacy, France will now use 195...
And Now The Disappearings Begin
Before I write my usual weekly summary of the news, I feel that I need to address the forced disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident of the United...