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Trump’s Doubly Flawed “Invasion” Theory

Elizabeth Goitein and Katherine Yon Ebright Just Security
The President claims unprecedented authority to ignore and override Congress and the Constitution whenever he proclaims an “invasion,” real or metaphorical. He is wrong about what an invasion is—and what powers it triggers.

How Humans Evolved To Be ‘Energetically Unique’

Anne J. Manning The Harvard Gazette
Human ancestors with higher metabolic rates outpaced ‘couch potato’ primates thanks to sweat, says new study. “The result is that we are an energetically unique species.”

The Democratic Capitulation Point

Hamilton Nolan Working in These Times
photo of a weather-worn and tattered poster on the street that says Neither Party Represents the Working Class.
Hope begins when Democratic Party leadership gives way to the Left. Unions can make it happen.

How To Organize Our Way out of the Trump-Musk Putsch

Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg The Nation
A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable. Our predecessors deposed a brain-addled king; crushed the violent insurrectionists of a slaveholding confederacy; they forced the robber barons to contend with workers.

Trump Saved Eric Adams’s Bacon—and Put the Country Up for Sale

Casey Michel The New Republic
The quid pro quo deal between the president and the mayor of New York City will throw open the foreign corruption floodgates. As the Trump administration moves to drop the case and gut any remaining independence out of the DOJ, damn the consequences

Trump and Netanyahu Have Devised the Crime of the Century

Aida Touma-Sliman Haaretz
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented an imperialist horror show. An American and an Israeli, each with his own criminal indictments, decided to determine the future of the Palestinian people.

Tidbits – Feb.20-Reader Comments: A Coup; Trump Vowed To Champion US Workers – the Reality a Relentless Assault; Make America Corrupt Again; Vance, Racism, German Fascism; for Israelis, ‘From the River to the Sea’ a Reality. For Palestinians, a Crime

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Reader Comments: It Is a Coup; Trump Vowed To Champion US Workers – the Reality a Relentless Assault; Make America Corrupt Again; Vance, Racism, German Fascism; For Israelis, ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is a Reality. For Palestinians, It’s a Crime...