Новости за 09.10.2023

The Biden administration has sparked backlash for posting and then deleting tweets that called for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine.

Robert Kennedy Jr. announced Monday that he is switching his presidential candidacy to run as an independent, confirming what everyone knew all along.

Nikki Haley refused to condemn Donald Trump for saying that people he doesn’t like should be killed, a chilling sign of how the Republican Party is starting to embrace authoritarian violence.

Multiple commentators on economic inequality, including the philanthropist Nick Hanauer and the journalists Noah Smith and Edward Hadas, have suggested that Parker Brothers, the board game company that created Monopoly in 1936, ought to create a new game called Monopsony. I agree.

A year from now lawn signs will be vying for attention with Halloween skeletons and pumpkins. Political analysts will be again grappling with the Gordian Knot of election forecasting: deciphering the meaning of early voting turnout. And Democrats, in predictable fashion, will be hyperventilating over every tenth-of-a-point shift in swing state polls and national polling averages. 

The Republican Party could have stepped away from the abyss in 2024. But three months before the Iowa caucuses, it is looking like GOP voters have decided on a rendezvous with authoritarianism. Back in 2016, the hopeful interpretation was that the nomination and election of Donald Trump was an historical accident—never to be repeated.