A White House Reverie at 5 Minutes to Midnight
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 31st, 2011 4:36 am by HL
A White House Reverie at 5 Minutes to Midnight
Obama tells Boehner and McConnell: “Your party set out three decades ago to deepen our deficit problems [see the post just below], and brought us the economic near-meltdown of 2008. And now that you’ve forced the crisis into the political…
Puncturing the Anti-Government Big Lie
What’s to be done about a domestic political discourse becoming unmoored from reality? The debt ceiling stand-off and early rounds of the 2012 campaign debate on the economy are disheartening markers of the sorry state of American politics. One of…
The Streets Of Tel Aviv: Bursting The Bubble?
More than a hundred thousand young Israelis, in every major city, took to the streets on Saturday night to protest the prohibitively high cost of living, especially the very high cost of housing. Last week, a tent city went up…