“Abolish corporate taxes?!?”
Read on. It hardly needs saying that President Biden has a lot on his plate right now: Addressing Covid–19 disruptions, rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, and the Green New Deal are among the many initiatives he now proposes to undertake. It…
“Isolationism revisited.”
Let us not miss its merits. Isolationism’s close association with interwar figures such as Charles Lindbergh and Joseph P. Kennedy has long given it a bad name—and not without reason. Yet, 80 years on from the founding of the America…
“‘A test for Biden.'”
Adam Weinstein on Afghanistan: A webcast. It was a pleasure the other day to welcome Adam Weinstein to The Scrum’s pages by way of a webcast. Weinstein is a research fellow at the Quincy Institute, the most intellectually innovative think tank…
“Washington’s bias toward war.”
A conversation with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. Once again, war clouds gather over eastern Ukraine. In recent weeks we have witnessed a surge in fighting in the Donbas region of Ukraine, accompanied by what is said to be a massing of Russian troops on Russia’s…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Inhumanity on Syria
The U.S. hypocrisy to come will be even greater than anything tried by the Trump administration. For a time after Joe Biden took office not quite three months ago, among the questions raised was how the new administration would address…
“Did somebody say ‘jobs plan?’”
Jokes, wheezes, goodies for the donor class. The boldness with which the Biden administration acted on its $1.9 trillion Covid–19 relief package gave many progressives hope that the Democrats’ break with the old Clinton/Obama governing paradigms had been decisively consolidated….
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Banner Headlines on Afghanistan Obscure US Motives
Exceptionalism and universalism are the third rails in the U.S.: Any public figure who questions either will suffer a kind of political electrocution. “’It is time to end the forever war.’” That is The New York Times quoting Joe Biden in a banner…