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Politicians Who Use Fascist Rhetoric Don’t Always Turn Out to Be Fascist Leaders. Will Trump?
“He does hit all the classic fascist tropes, I have to say.”
Jason Stanley
I survived my @IChotiner interview!
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The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration
Richard Epstein, a professor at N.Y.U. School of Law, discusses two articles he wrote, on the Hoover Institution Web site, entitled “Coronavirus Perspective” and “Coronavirus Overreaction,” and his views of the pandemic.
Jason Stanley
Legal academia's great giant gives an interview where he reveals the secret of his success to @IChotiner
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John W. Krakauer: The Intelligence of Movement
John W. Krakauer spoke at the DASER on May16, 2019. He is Director of the Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement (BLAM) Lab, Co-founder of the KATA project...
Jason Stanley
Here is a video by maybe the most brilliant person I have ever known, my co-author John Krakauer of @blamlab , explaining the heart of what I believe about skill.
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Portugal to treat migrants as residents during coronavirus pandemic
They will be free to use country’s health service, welfare system, bank accounts, and work and rental contracts
A Health Crisis, as Seen From Inside a Prison
An inmate talks about the AIDS experience, and a leader in prison education stresses the value of in-person teaching.
How do 3 million newly unemployed people get health care?
The uninsured rate is spiking in the middle of a pandemic.
Impeachment pode ser pouco para Bolsonaro
Os desvarios de Jair Bolsonaro não cabem mais na esfera da política. Quando o presidente se torna uma ameaça à saúde pública, sabotando o esforço ...
A Bonanza for Rich Real Estate Investors, Tucked Into Stimulus Package
A small change to tax policy could hand $170 billion in tax savings to real estate tycoons.
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Jason Stanley
In never waste a crisis news: rich real estate investors got a 160 billion dollar tax break, retroactive to 2018, in the new “stimulus” bill. Draining the swamp indeed.
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Mehdi Hasan: 'Most people ask the question and move on. I don't'
The political interviewer on how he made it in the US and his anger at the deference the media has for Donald Trump which could cost lives during the pandemic
‘Frank Ramsey’ Review: The Most Genial Genius
Ramsey first defined probability in terms of subjective degrees of belief, laying the basis for rational-choice theory and game theory,
Pikuach Nefesh: a Rabbi’s case for the need to protect life
From the blog of Robert Harris at The Times of Israel
Lessons from Italy’s Response to Coronavirus
Policymakers around the world can avoid making the same mistakes while there’s still time.
In Exchange for Aid, Trump Wants Praise From Governors He Can Use in Campaign Ads
Trump extorts praise from Democratic governors, then uses it in a campaign commercial that casts him as the hero of the coronavirus crisis.
After demanding praise, Trump finally approves coronavirus aid for Michigan
Following days of threats to withhold federal disaster relief from Michigan because Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had been critical of him, President Donald Trump finally announced...
Birx Spins 'Extraordinarily Low Numbers' of Coronavirus Cases
Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, misleadingly claimed that 19 states -- "almost 40% of the country" -- "have less than 200 cases" of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. In fact, 17 states with 7.2%...
Markets v. Lives
Claims that the cure is worse than the disease rely on a false tradeoff between human needs and the economy.
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Jason Stanley
My colleagues @gregggonsalves and @akapczynski are making themselves essential in this moment. Please read and share.
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The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life
The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus – but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions
Trump chips away at Congress' role in coronavirus relief oversight
The $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill establishes a "special inspector general" to review and investigate loan decisions made by the treasury secretary.
Jason Stanley
Remember how the Democrats pushed for, and won, a provision for a special inspector to oversee the 500 billion loans to large corporations? Trump's first action was to overrule that. 500 billion to corporations. No oversight.
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A Pogrom and Its Genealogies | Tanweer Fazal
In seventy-odd years of Indian independence, hardly a season has passed without murderous attacks on vulnerable castes and religious minorities—crimes that generally go unprosecuted.
Whitmer: Feds told vendors not to send medical supplies to Michigan
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer suggested Friday that a growing rift with the White House is now affecting shipments of medical supplies to Michigan amid exponential growth in confirmed coronavirus cases."When the federal government told us that we needed to...