Fears about the US are leading to a new world of balancing for the EU and middle powers | LSE United States Politics and Policy To protect themselves from an often-erratic US, the EU and other middle powers are rebalancing their geoeconomic policies.

Fears about the US are leading to a new world of balancing for the EU and middle powers writes @katemcnamara.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary Democracy wins big

Something to hope for
And work toward:

@kimlanelaw.bsky.social

"It took time, but I feel like in the last two years, people’s attitude toward each other and toward politics has changed step by step. I just had to follow the events of the Tisza Party.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/kim-lane-s...

As the SS Trump founders from multiple self-inflicted below-the-waterline holes, it will be fascinating to see which rats abandon ship first.

Sarah Longwell: We are committing superpower suicide in real time. Trump is making China Great Again. Poll: People in *every single one* of the top US-allied countries now believe it’s better to depend on China than on the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

It took George W. Bush almost 8 years to reach 50% of the public "strongly" disapproving of him. Trump did it in like 14 months

www.pewresearch.org/politics/200...

Donald Trump’s “Rascality” and Its Global Consequences - The Globalist What happens if one leader betrays America’s proudest traditions?

Worth reading: www.theglobalist.com/donald-trump...

Excited to be on 60 Minutes tonight discussing Iran’s HEU and other nuclear capabilities!

This is incredible.

Also. Fuck RFK Jr.

Trump, IRS in talks to settle US president's $10 billion lawsuit Lawyers for Donald Trump ​and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit against the tax ‌collection agency for leaking his tax returns to the media i...

Every presidential administration gets accused of corruption—sometimes with good reason, sometimes not. But the corruption of the Trump administration is of a magnitude that is not only without precedent in American history but so large and brazen as to be difficult to wrap one's head around.

How To Future-Proof Your Career In The Age Of AI | NOEMA The most prized workers will be those who can decode a sea of outputs, spot the meaningful signal and translate it into action that others understand and trust.

“One of the great ironies of this new machine age is that it seems set to rehabilitate, quite precisely, the value of the traditional ‘liberal arts’ education.”
www.noemamag.com/why-a-libera...

If US leaders cannot defend the country for $1 trillion rather than $1.5 trillion, we need a new set of leaders.

Let’s hope the ceasefire in Lebanon is more effective than the phony “ceasefire” in Gaza, in which hundreds more have died.

Sums it up nicely

The Battle for the Soul of Golf A Saudi-sponsored tournament shows why China and other rising powers will struggle to replace established global institutions with their own.

I don’t get everything right, but my skepticism about the LIV golf tour seems to have been justified. foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/09/l...

Has the United States become a rogue state? | DW News YouTube video by DW News

Strongly recommended viewing: @stephenwalt.bsky.social , Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, lays out succinctly all the key reasons why the US has now become a rogue state. Interview on @deutschewelle.dw.com , Germany's public intl. broadcaster.

@stephenwalt.bsky.social Excellent interview! At 9:15, he asks you about "the future after Trump", but starts off with "you know as well as I do that Trump will most likely be history after 2028". You didn't comment on this wording, but I'd love to hear what you thought about the "most likely" part.

US foreign policy.

Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

Harvard University is offering a free online course on the U.S. Constitution, taught by my friend and mentor Thomas Patterson. Understanding our Constitution has rarely been more important. Here's how you can enroll. www.edx.org/learn/govern...

"Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? It's not Iran, it's Israel... Which country in the Middle East attacked six countries last year? It wasn't Iran, it was Israel."

From my Piers Morgan debate with Israeli spokesman Doron Spielman.

Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkk1...

Take it from a historian who has a lot more evidence at his disposal -- it is actually entirely possible for something to be mostly one person's fault. You're not required to apportion blame for everything in equal measure. Honest!

So an Iran nuclear deal just not as good as the one we had

What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity We CAN have nice things - if we want them

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government.
Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

As a Red Sox fan disturbed by a disappointing opening to the season, I am hoping JD Vance will visit Yankee Stadium and express his support for them.

A lot of US taxpayer dollars will be needed

Somewhere in Beijing…”Ahhh, so US leaders really do think blockading other countries is totally ok… good to know” (pulls out chart of Taiwan).

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

Has any other nation ever gone to such incredible lengths—not just abandoning its foundational principles and curtailing its own citizens’ freedoms but even dismantling its own institutions—to shield another nation from scrutiny and criticism? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.