Month: November 2024

***** Helping Ukraine Is Europe’s Job Now

“If the United States abandons Ukraine, European states can start taking steps that the Biden administration, in its excess of caution, did not allow,” @PhillipsPOBrien writes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/trump-ukraine-survive-europe/680615/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYQZy6eoBRtRwDZlfdeic5VY&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

************* Are We Living in a Different America?

In the last months of his campaign, Donald Trump was open about his dictatorial impulses. On “Radio Atlantic,” Anne Applebaum and McKay Coppins speak with Hanna Rosin about whether his win means he will assume a mandate to act on them:

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/11/are-we-living-in-a-different-america/680565/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYRdYMPjnr10Ibxz2ZLDDQrM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The Democrats Are the HR Department of Political Parties

“The Democrats are officially the party of norms, procedure, bureaucracy, DEI initiatives, rule following, language policing, and compliance,” @pescami argues.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/democrats-are-the-hr-department-of-political-parties/680634/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXXtBOZCtTpc3pgdvplRgsQ&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

****** The Immigration-Wage Myth

Should American workers fear immigration? The research is clear: Anti-immigration sentiment has no economic justification. Jerusalem Demsas and Rogé Karma discuss on “Good on Paper”:

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/11/immigration-worker-wages-myth-jobs/680523/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXsuG2Q9rZdtMO7UnSUW-qc&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The Most Controversial Nobel Prize in Recent Memory

“If a nation’s internal threats are perceived to outweigh its external threats, then its people will fear the costs, risks, and redistribution of building a competitive economy,” warns @mzak123:  

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/democracy-acemoglu-nobel-prize/680522/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXyJff9_phYkuubZYi8yQ_c&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social