Restore the 1846 borders and join the belt and road.

Update on the duck and cover drills of old.

Couldn’t dems use the same tactic to hold up border wall, pipeline, and other such odious constructions?

Good episode of on Ottoman origins

www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/rudi...

Baer’s is very readable. My students liked it and it’s on audible.

And before that Gore should have never accepted the 2000 outcome. We should have had this fight 20 years ago.

And severely punish all who make, sell, and buy.

I think that Manchin’s response to articles like these show that he was always susceptible to public pressure, I just wish Biden was better at applying that pressure.
www.nytimes.com/2022/07/16/o...

www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/c...

It would be nice if we had a president capable of mobilizing public sentiment against Manchin. .

He has a girlfriend (and she’s really pretty), she just goes to another school.

Seems the place to start would be 2 senates seats for DC. Coming out of 2020 that could have been strong racial justice message. 2 more seats would then open up a lot of other possibilities. Current party leadership, contra voters, wants to preserve counter majoritarian institutions.

“Americans are actually enjoying more and better child care than they realize.” - vox explainer

And I think it’s not just the incoherence of the coalition but also counter majoritarian character of American political institutions. Even a relatively strong a unified Democratic Party would run into filibuster, Supreme Court, house districts limited to 435, etc.

I wonder where this fits in the Bidenomics conversation.

It’s so good!

Nice work! I’m closing in on 12k for the year. I haven’t driven to work since before the pandemic.

So it’s all pop culture, lifestyle branding, cat pics, and the like? Am I missing something? No ads I guess.

What a brilliant initiative have a great seminar!