What a week! Before being accused of Trump-cheerleading, the elephant in the room must be acknowledged: the Federal Reserve, its role in the inevitable boom-bust cycle, and Trump’s evolving stance on tariffs. 

Peter Kalmus, a data scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and noted climate scientist, told the Bloomberg audience that the California fires are caused by the fossil fuel industry which produces products that, when used, heat the planet. “It’s simply physics,” he said with certainty. 

With the Biden-Blinken foreign policy regime coming to a close, a clear-eyed analysis of this legacy is required. Pushing past partisan rhetoric and independent of the potential policy wins in a second Trump term, Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken were unqualifiedly terrible for American foreign policy, both from neo-conservative and realist perspectives.

In his article, “Why the War Was Not About Slavery,” Clyde Wilson distinguishes between history and political ideology, arguing that: “Conventional wisdom tells us that the great war of 1861-1865 was ‘about’ slavery or was ‘caused by’ slavery.

Why has the United States’ government become so politically dysfunctional?

[This article is an adapted selection from “Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States.”]