Politics

Post-Brexit Britain’s Collapse Is So Extreme, It’s Genuinely Unprecedented — I know I’ve discussed it a bit recently, but it needs discussing. In this little essay, I want to tie up some of the loose threads, with a simple observation. The scale and speed of British collapse is staggering. I mean that. Watching Britain turn into what it is now…

We Need to Think a Lot Bigger About a Better World If We Want to Save Our Civilization From Collapse — When I look around the globe these days, at the state of ideas, politics, economics, there’s a question going unasked. But it’s perhaps the most crucial one of all. It’s as daunting as it simple to say: what kind of world, future, planet should we want? “We” just means sane…

America’s highest ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, recently made his presence known with his inaugural address in this role, a poetic A to Z inventory of values that inspires or schools, depending on how the listener feels about democracy and decency. Intrigued like millions of others…

Of course they are. — Well, it’s official! Representative Katie Porter has announced she is running for the California Senate seat in 2024. While she might not be perfect, no lawmaker is and it’s hard to think of a better candidate who could come out of the neoliberal cesspool that is California politics vying for…

On Wednesday, one of the most crucial systems of aviation deployed by the FAA have crashed, prompting more than 10,000 flight to be delayed and 1,300 to be completely cancelled. The unprecedented crash, the first one in more than two decades, have raised questions about the system’s performance and whether…

Why Our Civilization’s in Decline, And What to Do About It — The 21st century’s young. We’re not even a quarter of the way through it. And yet it feels like an eternity. The days drag on. The world slips into regress. Civilization turns backwards. Ignorance and greed and hate and violence begin to rule, as democracy and its great values come…

Fearing defeat against an ‘inferior’ foe, Russia replaces Ukraine with U.S. and U.K. The defeat of the Russian army on the battlefield is if not imminent then certainly inevitable. Russia has no options for turning the tide in Ukraine, minus all-out nuclear war. If the new messaging out of Moscow…