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You Should Read This: Will Trump Force America to Break Up?

arkady2025-06-11Culture Law Politics

Bill McKibben at Mother Jones dipped his toe in the water yesterday with a piece titled “Will Trump Force America to Break Up?“. It’s pretty good. The closing paragraph does a decent job of summing up the current situation: Maybe…

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Oh, Gavin: You Are Really Not Meeting This Moment

arkady2025-06-10Culture Politics

Governor Newsom, you need to step up your game here. ‘Cause this is only going to get worse. Let’s set aside the issue of jackbooted federal thugs roaming the streets with masks and assault rifles. Firstly, because the whole country…

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A Reminder: Policing Is A Civilian Job

arkady2025-06-09Law Politics

Apparently, a large portion of the United States thinks that it’s OK for police to be military these days. And, as of this weekend, that it’s OK for military to be police. They’re wrong. It’s important to maintain this distinction,…

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You Should Read This: Feudalism Is Our Future

arkady2025-06-06Culture Read This

The Atlantic has a very good piece by Cullen Murphy up titled “Feudalism Is Our Future” (archive link). The title overstates things a bit. It’s not that they’re saying that the future as described is inevitable. The article is arguing…

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Not Illegal Here: On Extradition And Investigative Support

arkady2025-06-05Law Politics

The U.S. has always been kind of a patchwork of legal systems, and of course the countries of the world are an even more diverse collection. And that’s fine; good, even. Since we have a wide variety of people, and…

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Algorithmic Taxes: An Automated Tax System

arkady2025-06-04Politics

If you’re a flat-tax advocate, then you may want to stop reading this one now; it won’t be good for your blood pressure to continue. ‘Cause progressive-rate systems are fairer. OK, now that they’re gone: progressive-rate income taxes are more…

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Fragile Empires: Falling Slowly At First, Then All At Once

arkady2025-06-03Culture Politics

Everything happens faster in the modern world than it used to. This is natural. It’s basically a side-effect of more advanced technology. Communications are faster; transport of people and goods is faster. Change, even, in infrastructure and society is faster.…

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Attack Of The Drones: This Is Gonna Change A Lot Of Things

arkady2025-06-02Technology

Ukraine had already demonstrated that cheap, almost consumer-class, drones can be a major factor in modern warfare. But this weekend, they took it to a whole new level. In case you haven’t seen the news yet, over the weekend Ukraine…

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All Mixed Up: U.S. Law Needs A Procedural Re-Think

arkady2025-05-30Culture Law

I don’t want to think about the ongoing coup this morning, so here’s something that’s been bouncing around in my head for a while. We need to change how the U.S. legal process works. Currently, the actual process of making…

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Tariff Limits: A Long Time Coming, A Longer Time Going

arkady2025-05-29Law Politics

It took almost 2 months, but a court has finally ruled that Trump’s Libation Day tariffs are illegal and unconstitutional. And now … the inevitable appeals. So, ya know, don’t start celebrating yet. The illegal part is simple: the law…

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