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“It may be Alito’s Court, but it’s not yet his America.”
The final paragraph in a powerful New Yorker piece by Amy Davidson Sorkin: Alito notes that “women are not without electoral or political power.” Indeed, an effect of his draft opinion would be that Americans who care about reproductive rights … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Judiciary, Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, The god problem, voting and voting rights, War on women
Tagged Alito, Amy Davidson Sorkin, Roe, SCOTUS, The New Yorker
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About despots, Ukraine, Putin and America
I’m a few months behind in my New Yorkers. Today, though, David Remnick, the New Yorker’s editor, linked on Twitter a fascinating conversation he had with a Stalin scholar, Stephen Kotkin. The title of the piece, “The Weakness of the … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, War
Tagged Armando Iannucci, autocracies, David Remnick, despotism, despots, Hoover Institution, hot war, Putin, Quisling, Russia, sanctions, Stanford U, Stephen Kotkin, The Death of Stalin, The New Yorker, The Weakness of the Despot", Ukraine
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