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The Dollar’s Dilemma

By all appearances, a ghost from the 1980s is pacing the corridors of the White House once more. The phrase “Plaza Accord 2.0” is being quietly whispered, evoking memories of the 1985 deal that saw developed nations—most notably Japan—agree to manipulate exchange...

Robert Gates: Four Decades of Truckling

Photograph Source: Defense Dept. photo by Helene C. Stikkel – Public Domain Former CIA director Robert M. Gates was on “Face the Nation” last month and demonstrated that there has never been a better truckler in the federal bureaucracy over the past four decades. ...

What the Hell Is Posse Comitatus Anyway?

Elie Mystal Everything you wanted to know about the law that’s supposed to prevent presidents, like Trump, from deploying the military against civilians in places like LA. The post What the Hell Is Posse Comitatus Anyway? appeared first on The Nation.

Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid

Image by Michael Schofield. In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own version. We might summarize the entire...

The Unbearable Familiarity of Force in Los Angeles

Image by Ted Griswold. I’ve seen this story before. The images coming out of Los Angeles—militarized streets, protesters met with force, another round of justifications for escalation—hit me with the dull weight of déjà vu. It’s not that I’m shocked. It’s that I...

The Unbearable Familiarity of Force in Los Angeles

Image by Ted Griswold. I’ve seen this story before. The images coming out of Los Angeles—militarized streets, protesters met with force, another round of justifications for escalation—hit me with the dull weight of déjà vu. It’s not that I’m shocked. It’s that I...