Category: Bibliography

********** How to Navigate the Era of Trump

Many friends, @EliotACohen has found, are despondent over Trump’s victory. “I respect their points of view but have decided to look elsewhere for advice, and so have turned to a different set of friends—those sitting on my bookshelves.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/navigate-trump-era-guide/681020/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYR6QfO0tV08jWciZW3fL5QM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

****** The Crumbling Foundation of America’s Military

The obstacles the U.S. has faced in trying to supply Ukraine during the past two years have revealed a systemic, gaping national-security weakness, Mark Bowden writes. The vaunted American war machine is in disarray and disrepair.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/weapons-production-munitions-shortfall-ukraine-democracy/680867/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYfk8PlXjYcrzd0-wJ5yShIc&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

NYTimes.com: Democrats Don’t Have an Easy Way Out

Democrats Don’t Have an Easy Way Out

The party’s weakened condition leaves it ill prepared to defend itself against a Republican Party determined to eviscerate liberalism and the left.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/opinion/democratic-party-wilderness-trump.html?smid=em-share

By Thomas B. Edsall

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.