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We like our stories to have beginnings, middles, ends. History gives us none of these. It provides instead repetition, variations on a theme, and something we might�call entanglement. --Brandy ...

The last day to start working for the Federal Government under the old Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) was Dec 31, 1983. When you have worked for 41 years and 11 months, you have earned a retirement annuity equal to 80% of the average of your...

"The true father of our national literature." That's how H.L. Mencken described the force of nature that was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain. If ever there was a person whose bullshit detector went to 11, it was him. Also in his corner:...

New York Times : Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump ...

In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ...

The Obesity Epidemic: What Really Happened in the 1980s You've seen the arguments. Seed oils are poison. Sugar is the devil. Fast food destroyed America. The government ruined everything. Or maybe it's all Big Pharma's fault. Everyone's got a villain....

Richard Wolff explains why Trump embraced tariffs and how nationalist capitalism signals U.S. economic decline. A powerful breakdown of globalization, China, and worker power. Dr. Richard Wolff Exposes Trump Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here....

We begin today with� Heather Cox Richardson �writing for her “Letters from an American” Substack about the seeming avalanche of challenges to the Trump regime from the Republican Party. In the ...