“You have a choice to make in this room. Your mother is in a jar full of stingrays, but Donald Trump is not. He wants you to stand here and clap while the jar fills with stingrays. No, he’s not in danger. He just wants to see what he can get you to do. He’s not going to make a deal with another Mike Pence.“
We won’t give away any spoilers, but don’t expect Vance, Stefanik or Scott to last long, as their descendants try to prove their total loyalty to Trump. (See who our columnists think is the wisest choice? Their rankings are in the latest issue of the White House.) Alexi McCammond Prompt 2024 Newsletter. Sign up here.
We now know that obedience is the trait Trump wants not just from his vice president but from the entire civil service that runs the executive branch. A bipartisan group of five former heads of national security, foreign affairs and intelligence agencies has fired back with an op-ed defending public officials’ responsibility to speak truth to power.
This group Also Bureaucrats should be held more accountable for poor job performance. “As a practical matter, a small number of bad actors among them are overprotected under the existing system,” they say. They present a plan to solve this particular problem without jeopardizing the independence of the entire civil service.
Chaser: We have seen the horrors of one-party rule where competition, resistance and innovation die. Look at Indiana (at least according to its former governor). Mitch Daniels).
“Gaza was once covered with citrus orchards,” says policy researcher Tariq Kenny Shawa He writes a harrowing case study of how Israel has stifled Palestinian industry. Jaffa oranges are known the world over, and by the 1960s more than 30 percent of Gaza’s workforce was employed in citrus cultivation.
After 1967, Israeli intervention caused the industry to decline: exports were blocked, orchards were bulldozed, and water restrictions killed even more trees. “Today, orange and lemon trees no longer dot the countryside,” writes Kenny Shawa. “An industry that was supposed to be the foundation of Gaza’s economic development lies in tatters.”
This, he said, is proof that “Israel has been and will continue to be the greatest obstacle to Gaza’s prosperity.”
journalist Monique Cresca The film documents her neighbourhood in Haiti, another besieged community struggling to survive. Gangs have recently taken full control of the country, but like Gaza, the situation has been going on for generations, with people having no one to turn to but themselves.
When Cresca moved to the neighborhood in 1996, “there was no electricity, so my neighbors pooled together and we put in the towers and transformers to bring power to our area.” Now, Cresca wakes up to the sound of machine gun fire.
She said the word “combit,” a Creole word meaning “common labor,” is Haitians’ only hope for getting through this crisis, even if it is unfair.
from Lena Wen’s I wrote a column about the rising prevalence of various STIs in this somewhat surprising group. Here’s a quick note that as a public health expert, Lina can’t, and probably shouldn’t, say: “Come on, seniors! I get it!”
Of course, we want to ensure that seniors can enjoy themselves safely. Lina says the sudden increase in sexually transmitted diseases is do not have While more sex is inevitable, it’s mostly due to lower condom use among older adults, who are less aware of sexually transmitted diseases, which is a problem in itself. Can you blame them for coming of age in an era when abstinence is all they’re expected to do?
Liana writes that the medical community needs to start treating and educating people over 65 as people who can be just as healthy as younger people.
Chaser: Long-term COVID may herald a wave of disability claims Editorial Committee Be warned: governments need to prepare.
He wrote that Major League Baseball’s recent incorporation of Negro League statistics into its record books was a “triumph.” Bob KendrickThe director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, says he just wants to make sure the memory of all the pain, strength and perseverance players of color showed on segregated playing fields doesn’t fade.
In his brief history of the league, Kendrick writes that achieving excellence there “wasn’t easy. It was hard,” which is why the top players “knew perfectly well how good they were. They knew how good their league was. And, frankly, so did the major leaguers.”
Now the statistics back it up, and Kendrick hopes it’s just a starting point for baseball fans to learn more about “the tenacity and entrepreneurial spirit of the Negro Leagues.”
- Apparently, all American economists are now communists? Catherine Rampell Explore the Republican Party’s bold new claims!
- Our European allies have good reason to fear a Trump return. Jen Rubin They write that the Western alliance will not survive another term.
- Maybe it’s not the Constitution failing us, but rather we failing the Constitution. Ramesh Ponnuru He wrote that the document was meant to unite, not divide.
It’s goodbye. It’s a haiku. It’s… “goodbye.”
Rotten wooden box at the border
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