Trump’s Praise of the World’s Great Autocrats Worked for a While, Before It Didn’t
In addition to Trump’s being recognized, at last, as a career criminal, part of what has taken him down is his adoration of two of the most ruthless mass murderers we’ve seen over the past half-century: Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, both of whom he regards as “very smart.”
That they arrest and torture to death dissidents as a means to retain their power stands them both high in his esteem.
Who are we as a people?
What does it mean when the 
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It’s hard to know if Trump’s unflagging attacks on his enemies are a) part of a deliberate, personal policy, b) a neurotic compulsion, or c) a combination of the two.
What Anne Hathaway says here is spot-on.
From a reader:
Ultra-right-wing whack-job “news” source Newsmax is conducting a survey (see left).
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of theories that seek to explain why there have been no verified stories of contact with extraterrestrials.
Here’s a 
Here are two ways of saying essentially the same thing, that come from a pair of human history’s greatest minds.
As we work our way through the 21st Century, we’re running into the effects of the widening chasm between the amoral rich and the desperate poor: environmental collapse, the decay of our educational system, widespread corruption made possible by a two-tiered justice system, and authoritarianism.
