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It has been a year since Trump and Rubio stopped funding USAID. The costs born by the poor who those programs helped have enormous. But they are far from us; we do not see how they suffer and die. It is an American-made catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
Opinion | What We Lost When We Lost U.S.A.I.D.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
It has been a year since Trump and Rubio stopped funding USAID. The costs born by the poor who those programs helped have enormous. But they are far from us; we do not see how they suffer and die. It is an American-made catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
What if the enshittification cycle of Big Tech includes a political capture loop? If Big Tech--Google. Meta, Twitter, etc.--controls information, how can we bring it down? How can we do to Amazon what Tarbell did to Standard Oil? open.substack.com/pub/hypertex...
The fragmentation flywheel
Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution resists political response
open.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM
What if the enshittification cycle of Big Tech includes a political capture loop? If Big Tech--Google. Meta, Twitter, etc.--controls information, how can we bring it down? How can we do to Amazon what Tarbell did to Standard Oil? open.substack.com/pub/hypertex...
Questions about the recent cyber incident in Poland. In any type of analysis, it is important to ask what sources are used with what limits and what assumptions are made. pylos.co/2026/01/31/a...
Attributive Questions in High Profile Incidents
On 30 January 2026, CERT.PL published findings concerning an electric sector attack on Poland in December 2025. This report, presumably the most complete on the incident covering multiple sources a…
pylos.co
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Questions about the recent cyber incident in Poland. In any type of analysis, it is important to ask what sources are used with what limits and what assumptions are made. pylos.co/2026/01/31/a...
Joe Collins lays out reasons why we have been able to wear a white hat in international affairs. Trump and his administration seem to be trying the black hat on for size.
open.substack.com/pub/josephco...
open.substack.com/pub/josephco...
Strategic Affairs no. 67
Are We the Good Guys?
open.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Joe Collins lays out reasons why we have been able to wear a white hat in international affairs. Trump and his administration seem to be trying the black hat on for size.
open.substack.com/pub/josephco...
open.substack.com/pub/josephco...
Montgomery County, MD, has changed dramatically since Sidney Randolph was lynched in Rockville on the Fourth of July, 1896. But its history since then shows that anger and hate in the county have not disappeared.
www.mocolmp.org/post/racial-...
www.mocolmp.org/post/racial-...
A Look at the History of Racial Violence in Montgomery County
Racism and racial violence in Montgomery County, MS.
www.mocolmp.org
January 27, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Montgomery County, MD, has changed dramatically since Sidney Randolph was lynched in Rockville on the Fourth of July, 1896. But its history since then shows that anger and hate in the county have not disappeared.
www.mocolmp.org/post/racial-...
www.mocolmp.org/post/racial-...
Reposted
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
I watched Trump’s speech at Davos and came away convinced that his mental state is abnormal, to use a neutral phrase. This article gives clinical reasons why we should all be concerned. What makes it worse: his condition is progressive. open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...
Davos and Dementia
Dan and I talked about Carney’s speech, which you should watch in full if you haven’t already.
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I watched Trump’s speech at Davos and came away convinced that his mental state is abnormal, to use a neutral phrase. This article gives clinical reasons why we should all be concerned. What makes it worse: his condition is progressive. open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...
U.S. manufacturing is struggling. Why? Tariffs raise the prices of inputs; their implementation and complexity add to uncertainty. Beware of forecasts that any of this will change. www.cato.org/commentary/a...
America’s Manufacturing Renaissance Is Missing in Action
The evidence reveals a sector that’s stagnant at best, and a long way from the manufacturing renaissance President Donald Trump promised when he took office for a second time a year ago.
www.cato.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:11 PM
U.S. manufacturing is struggling. Why? Tariffs raise the prices of inputs; their implementation and complexity add to uncertainty. Beware of forecasts that any of this will change. www.cato.org/commentary/a...
Trump at Davos: Soliloquy of a lunatic. It is sad, dispiriting. humiliating, maddening.
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Trump at Davos: Soliloquy of a lunatic. It is sad, dispiriting. humiliating, maddening.
An eloquent appraisal of where we stand in our 250th year.
January 20, 2026 at 2:54 PM
An eloquent appraisal of where we stand in our 250th year.
The Trumpian worldview is consistent, sort of, and bonkers. We will have to live with and try to undo the damage it is wreaking. That will be a task for the next generation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
How to Understand Trump’s Obsession With Greenland
Erratic though the president may sound, the Trumpian worldview is comprehensible.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:25 PM
The Trumpian worldview is consistent, sort of, and bonkers. We will have to live with and try to undo the damage it is wreaking. That will be a task for the next generation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Peace for a prize, not simply because it's good. In case anyone doubted that Trump is transactional, not principled. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Trump links Greenland threat to Nobel Peace Prize snub, EU eyes trade retaliation
President Donald Trump linked his drive to take control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he no longer thought "purely of Peace" as the row over the island threatened to...
www.reuters.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Peace for a prize, not simply because it's good. In case anyone doubted that Trump is transactional, not principled. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Our imperialist president proves that hypocrisy is but a venial sin. Would that he saw American interests as Kipling and McKinley did rather than as Stephen Miller does.
"Trump is destroying the postwar world that America made in favour of a Hobbesian jungle in which the strong take what they must — and he is doing so with racial imagery." My Swamp Notes with @jyshapiro.bsky.social on Trump's predatory boomerang. as.ft.com/r/9f5de7fe-2...
The white man’s burden, Trump edition
[FREE TO READ] America’s president is repudiating the postwar world fashioned by the US
as.ft.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Our imperialist president proves that hypocrisy is but a venial sin. Would that he saw American interests as Kipling and McKinley did rather than as Stephen Miller does.
May Trump have a Dickensian NYE night. May he be visited by ghosts of America Past, Present, and Future. May he greet the New Year as a new man, happy, generous, loving his fellow man, great and small, rich and poor.
January 1, 2026 at 12:13 AM
May Trump have a Dickensian NYE night. May he be visited by ghosts of America Past, Present, and Future. May he greet the New Year as a new man, happy, generous, loving his fellow man, great and small, rich and poor.
Barton Swaim sees profanity as a political statement. one that will leave us when the political winds change. Alas, it's not. It has become ubiquitous, embedded in our culture. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
The Politics of Profanity
Some politicians seem to think R-rated talk will get them ahead. Are they right?
www.wsj.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Barton Swaim sees profanity as a political statement. one that will leave us when the political winds change. Alas, it's not. It has become ubiquitous, embedded in our culture. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
Trump. Hegseth, et al., like Peter Pan, will never grow up. Pity them.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Pitiful Childishness of Donald Trump
The president’s appetite for plastering his name on every available surface appears insatiable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Trump. Hegseth, et al., like Peter Pan, will never grow up. Pity them.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Trump administration does not understand that Russia cares not about economics, only empire, and is dedicated to the complete subjugation of Ukraine. Believing that they think as we do is a fool's game.
www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...
www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...
The West Doesn’t Understand Russia
In 1939 Winston Churchill described Russia as a “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” His famous dictum reflected the West’s perpetual misunderstanding of what driv
www.realcleardefense.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Trump administration does not understand that Russia cares not about economics, only empire, and is dedicated to the complete subjugation of Ukraine. Believing that they think as we do is a fool's game.
www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...
www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...
The label 'competitive authoritarianism' might be accurate for the US. But the factors favoring democracy remain strong. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Price of American Authoritarianism
What can reverse democratic decline?
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The label 'competitive authoritarianism' might be accurate for the US. But the factors favoring democracy remain strong. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Is there corruption in Ukraine? Of course. But how do we know? Ukrainians, determined to root it out, are making it transparent. In contrast, Russia is determined to make it opaque and the Trump administration has made it translucent. open.substack.com/pub/anneappl... @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Ukrainians want honest government. Do we?
Ukraine's fight against corruption is impossible to imagine right now in America or Russia
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Is there corruption in Ukraine? Of course. But how do we know? Ukrainians, determined to root it out, are making it transparent. In contrast, Russia is determined to make it opaque and the Trump administration has made it translucent. open.substack.com/pub/anneappl... @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
A small thing, but telling. The National Park Service Ends Fee-Free Days on MLK Day and Juneteenth and Places Trump on America the Beautiful Passes open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
National Park Service Ends Fee-Free Days on MLK Day and Juneteenth and Places Trump on America the Beautiful Passes
It’s been a while since we checked in with our friends at the National Park Service.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A small thing, but telling. The National Park Service Ends Fee-Free Days on MLK Day and Juneteenth and Places Trump on America the Beautiful Passes open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The article is somewhat snarky, but it has insight into what makes Trump tick: The joys of a 12-year old boy with no parents to say he can't.
COLUMN: Trump is the president who just won’t grow up.
Instead of focusing on governing, he spends his days chasing entertainment, attention and renovation projects that reflect a presidency stuck in adolescence, writes our politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin.
Instead of focusing on governing, he spends his days chasing entertainment, attention and renovation projects that reflect a presidency stuck in adolescence, writes our politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin.
The President Who Never Grew Up
Instead of focusing on governing, Trump spends his days chasing entertainment, attention and renovation projects that reflect a presidency stuck in adolescence.
www.politico.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The article is somewhat snarky, but it has insight into what makes Trump tick: The joys of a 12-year old boy with no parents to say he can't.
Peggy Noonan on this era of political violence. We need to cool it. How can we? www.wsj.com/opinion/were...
Opinion | We’re in an Era of Political Violence
Trump has been a target, but he speaks so carelessly that he could end up becoming an instigator.
www.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Peggy Noonan on this era of political violence. We need to cool it. How can we? www.wsj.com/opinion/were...
The cybersecurity of our country always had to depend on cooperation between government and the private sector. It now seems that the federal government is folding its tent. wapo.st/4iaHqBR
Opinion | The cyberattacks are coming. Will anyone be there to stop them?
Trump administration job cuts worsen U.S. vulnerabilities to China and other cyber-adversaries.
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The cybersecurity of our country always had to depend on cooperation between government and the private sector. It now seems that the federal government is folding its tent. wapo.st/4iaHqBR
Rich Harwood has seen that we have fallen out of the habit of thinking locally; we focus instead on national issues and look outside our community for solutions. This makes us spectators, not players. There is so much more that we can do if we think and act locally.
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Rebuilding Democracy from the Bottom Up
A 'New Civic Path' in our local communities may be America's best hope
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Rich Harwood has seen that we have fallen out of the habit of thinking locally; we focus instead on national issues and look outside our community for solutions. This makes us spectators, not players. There is so much more that we can do if we think and act locally.
open.substack.com/pub/civicbar...
open.substack.com/pub/civicbar...