The Nation: what at does Stephen Bannon really believe? Because he hasn’t spoken much in public since becoming, as Time magazine puts it, “the Second Most Powerful Man in the World”—he’s the president’s influential chief strategist and now a member of the National Security Council’s principals committee—analysts have focused in […]
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich – The New Yorker Steve Huffman, the thirty-three-year-old co-founder and C.E.O. of Reddit, which is valued at six hundred million dollars, was nearsighted until November, 2015, when he arranged to have laser eye surgery. He underwent the procedure not for the sake of convenience or […]
Source: Time Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Soviet Union and is the author of The New Russia. The world today is overwhelmed with problems. Policymakers seem to be […]
newyorker.com: On June 3, 1980, at about two-thirty in the morning, computers at the National Military Command Center, beneath the Pentagon, at the headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (norad), deep within Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, and at Site R, the Pentagon’s alternate command post center hidden inside Raven Rock […]
NY Times: Is there nothing to be done about galloping inequality? Last year the typical American family experienced the fastest income gainssince the government started measuring them in the 1960s. But the top 1 percent did even better, raising their share of income higher than it was when President Obama […]