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Sergey Stankevich09.05.2023

Commentators, out of habit, were flippant about yet another row in the US Congress over the national debt ceiling. They have a tradition. The Republicans refuse to raise the borrowing limit, the government runs out of money in all stash pockets, the parties noisily quarrel, then at the last moment before the default they find […]

Sergey Stankevich03.04.2023

This question was featured on the cover of Newsweek last summer. Since then, a lot of work has been going on to implement this plan. Five investigations have been launched against the frantic Donald, in which he is being treated as a suspect. Riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2020, an attempt to put […]

Nicholas Erin28.06.2020

The new North American free trade agreement that goes into effect Wednesday, July 1, 2020 was touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as an engine of American job creation. But Japan’s automakers are largely opting instead to keep operations in place and pay Mexican workers more or even just pay tariffs. The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement requires […]

Yuri Chekalin12.05.2020

Noam Chomsky, born December 7, 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., American theoretical linguist whose work from the 1950s revolutionized the field of linguistics by treating language as a uniquely human, biologically based cognitive capacity. Through his contributions to linguistics and related fields, including cognitive psychology and the philosophies of mind and language, Chomsky helped to initiate […]

Tony Cormy11.05.2020

For 20 years, Australia had existed comfortably in a fog of delusion. Successive governments and most Australians convinced themselves that the emerging world order was one in which they could do pretty well. Our great and powerful friend the United States would provide strategic defence, just as it had since World War II. America was […]

Nicholas Erin11.05.2020

China’s direct investment in the United States has fallen sharply in recent years amid a growing trade dispute between the world’s two biggest economies. Chinese investments totaled $1.8 billion from January through May, representing a 92-percent drop against the same period a year ago. That’s the lowest level in seven years. The negative sentiment prevailed, […]

David K. Shipler08.05.2020

Tired of wishes, Empty of dreams — Carl Sandburg The man who washes cars does not own one. The clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank has $2.02 in her own account. The woman who copy-edits medical textbooks has not been to a dentist in a decade. This is the forgotten America. At the […]

Roger Kimball03.05.2020

Among other things, the case of Gen. Michael Flynn reminds us of the old adage that things are always worse than you think. Right from the beginning of the attempted coup some of us took to calling ‘the Russian Collusion Delusion’, it was clear that the hounding of President Trump and various aides and supporters […]

U.S.

And the Business is Becoming More Serious

Will Trump Do Time?

Japan’s Automakers Pay Trice to Mexicans, But Don’t Move to the US

Interview with Noam Chomsky

Pandemic: the US and Australia

China Reduces US Investment by 92%

Poverty in the US

The Flynn Case Is a Travesty

Do Animals have Conscious Thought?

Gavriil Popov — the First Post-Communist Mayor of Moscow

“Bulgakov — Get Out the Russian Chauvinist from Kyiv!”

Japan Reopens to Foreign Tourists