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Predictable Chaos

As expected, it took a fortnight for the general tone of the second term of the Dunning-Kruger administration to reveal itself. This is not to say there have been no surprises. Who knew Donald Trump was a Maoist? “There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent.” We certainly did not expect to hear, on National Polite Radio, such a devastatingly accurate assessment of the President’s declaration, on Tuesday, of Nakba II. “I understood this as the meeting between a convicted felon, in the White House, and an indicted war criminal, in Benjamin Netanyahu,” Yousef Munayyer told Steve Inskeep. “So the expectation was, there …

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Welcome to the “Find Out” Phase

It would have been a perfectly suitable topic for debate in collegiate political science departments: should the planet’s most powerful nation elevate a felon whose mental, moral, and psychological fitness have long been questioned into its most powerful office? This is the good old U.S.A., though. Rather than pose this blatantly silly question as a theoretical exercise, we went by a principle familiar to many men tackling an unfamiliar project, the editor himself not excluded: “Let’s do something, even if it’s wrong.” There is another way to describe what we have just done, more vulgar but succinct: FAFO, i.e., “F___ Around and Find Out.” Having …

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What Could Possibly Go Right?

Thirty some-odd years ago we lamented in these pages that surveying the political landscape was like being strapped in the cheap seats, being forced to watch the glacier races. Congress conducted its business through a process known as “regular order”—committees and subcomittees held hearings, budgets were debated and passed, and so forth. A democratic president played to a broad swath of voters, largely by promoting policies associated with republicans: cracking down on crime, lightening up on regulation, balancing the budget, and making trade deals. Few were paying attention to an obscure Georgia congressman with the name of a small reptile. A certain Australian newspaper heir’s …

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Trump 2.0 — It’s the Bomb

We had thought we would lead off this issue with the incoming administration nearly shutting down the federal government more than a month before it even takes office. How naïve and unimaginative of us. What’s a little domestic turmoil when you’re annexing Greenland, occupying Mexico, and re-taking the Panama Canal? Even that may just be the small stuff. At this time of year when the separation of church and state is observed with a wink and a nod at best, even we are on our knees, praying that the soon-to-be inauguree was too busy on December 16th to read the Wall Street Journal column headlined, …

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Sympathy for the Devil

What a weird time to be alive. It’s Friday, the 13th of December. Forget about how many days ’till Christmas—we’re counting down to TrumpMania 2025. Just 38 days to go under the old regime, and after that? Nobody knows, apparently anything goes. Despite our editorial policy on superstitions—i.e., just ignore them—it seems a little extra caution might be prudent. So, we’re not going to re-hash European history from ninety years ago. Neither will we try to predict what this incoming administration might get up to. Trying to make sense of a single event from this fortnight will be challenge enough. When a person is shot …

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Let’s flex our freedom, while we can

Under the terms thrust upon us in 1789, when this newspaper was well into its thirty-third year of publication, the responsibility for keeping the federal government honest lies with a free and independent press. As the last remaining example of that species, we had best get cracking. The current state of affairs is, shall we say, somewhat less than optimal. In fact, as we scan the horizon, we are reminded of Hercules, tasked with removing thirty years of accumulated filth from the Augean stables, and given but a single day to do it. Fortunately we have fifty-two days to put the ship of state in …

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