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Posted on December 26, 2008 | by Ed

I'll have more to say in the near future about the economic outlook for 2009, but let's go ahead and assume that it's a bad sign when state governments have to start asking Uncle Sam for emergency loans to pay unemployment benefits.

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It's reasonable to fear that Trump will prevent fair elections in the future. He's certainly going to try. Why do we do him the favor of assuming his clumsy intimidation efforts will work?

We speak one fear to avoid thinking about a possibility that scares us even more, I argue.
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On Trump's enduring appeal to people who have no real problems and let their comfortable, empty lives drive them to obsess over petty annoyances. ...

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n 1968 the American Jewish Congress commissioned a report on whether Nigerian actions against the Igbo population of Biafra constituted genocide. Using arguments and language ripped right out of the Gaza discourse here in 2025, their conclusions do less to *answer* the question and more to help us see the folly of the question itself.

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Going under anaesthetic involved me signing documents confirming that the hospital warned me not to “enter into any contracts or legal agreements” for 12 hours after coming out of it and, no joke, I’d watch a 10 part prestige streaming series about whatever incident led to them adding that warning. ...

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