Published on http://www.counterpunch.org I am completely half afraid to think. – Flann O’Brien Right now, walking about, conversing in your everyday life as an “Everyday American” you feel a... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org About half of the U.S. is offended and repulsed by the existence of Donald J. Trump while the remaining half welcome him as a Messiah. Passions and o... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Words come to meaning within the context of expression, which is time and place. Call it the stage upon which actors –words – are confined. Maybe the... Read more
The Marketing of Algorithmic Transmissions “The algorithm, he said, was YouTube’s speech and distinct from what users had posted.” – New York Times, Feb. 21, 2023 If the algorithm is speech... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org War rages, horrid war Even in our bones; our double nature sounds With armèd discord. – Prudentius, Psychomachia “The cultural critic Raymond... Read more
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NY Times – Politics
The $95.3 billion measure comes after months of gridlock in Congress that put the centerpiece of President Biden’s foreign policy in jeopardy. [...]
Federal trial judges in Texas and Idaho came to opposite conclusions in a battle between conservative states and the U.S. government over limits on abortion access. [...]
The alliance’s largest exercises offer a preview of what the opening of a Great Power conflict could look like. How it ends is a different story. [...]
Polls show voters are angry about costs, like mortgages, and worried they will stay high if the president wins re-election. [...]
The word choice is not merely a question of semantics but gets to the heart of the ultimate goal of the anti-abortion movement: fetal personhood, and prohibiting abortion entirely. [...]
The leader said he often “felt like I was the only Reagan Republican left” as he pushed back on rising forces in his party arguing against American intervention in foreign affairs. [...]