The American Condition Remains Unstable.
Department
Decorative menace, appropriations, and the procedural theater of American power.
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DepartmentPolitics
FiledJohn Herring
The United States government concluded that the central purpose of the modern state is not infrastructure, defense, housing, education, disaster relief, affordable fuel, healthcare or the job market. It is ballrooms. …
DepartmentPolitics
FiledJohn Herring
California lawmakers will vote this month on a new bill introduced in response to criticism surrounding AB 2624, after legislators concluded the existing privacy law did not adequately address the state’s most persistent remaining vulnerability: Nick Shirley existing and having a valid license. …
DepartmentEnd Of The American Experiment
FiledJohn Herring
President Trump referenced the idea of people being “hung” today, prompting an immediate nationwide administrative ceremony in which the phrase was folded, labeled, laminated, and placed gently into the government’s “Locker Room Talk” drawer. The process, practiced and efficient, begins when a politically alarming phrase enters public space and is immediately softened by analysts using specialized …