Political scientists have long understood that loneliness is a precondition for authoritarianism, which depends on people being isolated and mistrusting one another.
The core of Trump’s being is his lack of empathy. He seems destined to forever be the privileged son of a rich man and one who grew up in 23-room house with a chauffeur and a cook and possessing a Cadillac.
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A series of White House social-media videos turn the carnage in Iran into gleeful entertainment.
The ultrawealthy put Trump in power but other people will pay the price
Country Joe’s caustic black humor struck a loud chord with the 400,000-strong Woodstock audience. “Come on mothers throughout the land, pack your boys off to Vietnam,” he sang. “Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box.”
We want the embargo to end. We want the cruel, inhumane oil blockade by the Trump regime to end. We want the current administration’s posturing toward war games and invasion to end. We want engagement, not escalation. We want friendship.
From city councils to Congress, homeowners have always dominated elected office. But after Mamdani’s victory, a slew of candidates want to follow in his footsteps.
Why has the Middle East been so consistently wracked by war? Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.
This is a psychotic war. One that Israel and the United States entered led by two psychopaths. Vainglorious, narcissistic, disconnected. They head the two most fundamentalist and anti-democratic governments in the history of their countries.
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