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“Pfizer’s phony rhetoric.”
The free market? Let us count the public money behind its vaccine. So much for the idea that governments shouldn’t be in the business of picking winners and losers. We are now on the threshold of achieving the first effective vaccine…
“Fables of the #Resistance.”
What a mess these ‘progressive’ poseurs leave us with. The Democrats’ 2016 debacle should have been a wakeup call. Outspent by his Democratic opponent by a factor of 2 to 1, a manic former game- show host with a losing…
“The precarity election.”
Democrats ignored the working class once again. Given Joe Biden’s pitifully narrow margin of victory last week, the 2020 election hardly represented the vaunted “blue wave” predicted by many pollsters. Give or take a shift of 100,000 votes or so in…
“Our eternal present.”
America has stopped becoming. “Four more years” used to be the way campaigning incumbents decorated bumper stickers. It was Nixon’s promise (or threat) as he sought a second term in 1972, if I am not mistaken. Now the election of…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Talk of Another Pink Tide
Expect an orgy of U.S. subterfuge. If there’s one thing Washington cannot abide more than a working social democracy, it’s a working social democracy in Latin America. The election of Luis Arce in Bolivia last month has been much celebrated in circles…
THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 9—Opening the CIA’s Vault
As its publisher remains in prison awaiting judgment on his extradition case, we continue our series of looking at WikiLeaks’ significant revelations contributing to the public’s right to know. On Feb. 6, 2017, WikiLeaks released documents detailing the Central Intelligence Agency’s espionage program in…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Damage Russiagate Has Done
Authoritarian liberals have unleashed a censorious syndrome peculiar to our national character, dating to 17th century Quaker hangings in Boston. An inhabitant of Twitterland named “Willow Inski” took to the keyboard on Oct. 11, asking why anyone still accepts official…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Europe Going Its Own Way
Events of the past week show the Continent restoring some of its pre-1945 independence from U.S. hegemony. Those who come after us will look back and conclude we lived in a time of great moment. This is true in all sorts of…
Why have we turned our backs on Julian Assange?
Nothing about his case is fair: his crime was simply to expose corruption and wrongdoing. We need to understand his banishment before it is too late, urges Patrick Lawrence Of all the images of Julian Assange made public over the years,…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hillary Clinton at the UN?
Whether or not Biden appoints her, things are getting very brazen and very bitter, very fast. We are now told that President-elect Joe Biden may name none other than Hillary Clinton to be his ambassador to the United Nations. This…