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• The short answer is no. Why was President Biden fist bumping dictators in Brazil and Saudi Arabia, and looking to open Alaska for Conoco Phillips to d...

Extreme income inequality is at the root of the anti-China protests in Hong Kong. Hong Kong represents perhaps the developed world’s most extreme case of income inequality. Rents in Hong Kong are even higher than rent paid by denizens in New York City and San Francisco. And, given that the ...

The Chinese communist regime’s explanation for the Hong Kong riots during the summer of 2019 is that “Black Hand” of U.S. provocateurs is at work. These are baseless accusations characteristic of autocratic regimes that have caused the social upheavals themselves.

In H...

by Michael Tomasky

February 2, 2019

In most histories of how Americans became so polarized, the Great Inflation of the 1970s is given short shrift — sometimes no shrift at all. This is wrong. Inflation was as pivotal a factor in our national crackup as Vietnam and W...