In 2024, a contested convention would become an arena to settle every score from Gaza to Medicare for All. A free-for-all would shatter the fragile Democratic coalition that Joe Biden so carefully knit together. Several pundits made the same observation: No alternative candidate is doing better...
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Wednesday, an Army helicopter and an American Eagle jetliner collided over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport in D.C. Trump promptly repeated the pattern I pointed out three weeks ago: Despite the fact that he knew nothing about the actual causes of the crash, he blamed it on ...
Slaves who escaped, joined the Union Army, and came back to fight for the freedom of their people. Those are the real Southern heroes. Some previous Sift articles: “You Don’t Have to Hate Anybody to be a Bigot“, “Please Take Down Your Confederate Flag“, and “Not a Tea Party, ...
This “university” is tiny, but so was the army of Gideon. And the Bolsheviks. Don’t forget the Bolsheviks. Grievances. If your plan is to “channel grievances into government power”, then you have to be able to manufacture grievances. Here too, we also see the familiar pattern of ...
As the Army Corps [of Engineers] eventually conceded, they were breached because of flawed engineering and collapsed because they were junk. … The Corps and local levee boards that maintain flood barriers pinched pennies, and suddenly Katrina became the nation’s first $200 billion disaster....
So in June or July he goes on TV and says, “The Afghan Army isn’t going to fight, so the government going to fall very suddenly. If you want to be part of the evacuation, start off for the airport now.” Not only would the collapse have begun immediately, but all the Liz ...
Ever since, its politics have revolved around conflict between the secular army and the Muslim-majority electorate. So in Turkey, Islam has been the democratizing force. Democracy seems to be winning in Turkey, so the next conflict is whether the country will be a liberal democracy (in which...
It is the lineal descendant of Lee’s army, and the descendants of Grant’s have yet to subdue it. In “Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party” I described the Confederacy as a worldview: The essence of the Confederate worldview is that the democratic process cannot legitimately change ...
In third-world countries that are trying to achieve democracy, you worry about whether the elected government can get along with the army. But such notions should never come up in America. Nobody elected the NYPD. If public employees don’t feel that they can submit in good conscience to ...