When Cruelty Knows No Bounds
Trump’s efforts to make it harder for Americans to receive food stamps ran headlong into the 67-page opinion of Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of D.C. who condemned the administration for failing to consider how the rule would impact an estimated hundreds of thousands of Americans during the pandemic.
Of course, this is a mistake anyone could have made; after all, who knew that the pandemic had pushed millions of Americans into joblessness, and that unemployment might trigger hunger?
In withdrawing the United States from the Open Skies Treaty and destroying the highly specialized aircraft used to conduct surveillance on Russia, Donald Trump has made it impossible for our own nation, as well as all our allies, to know which country is to become the next Crimea, illegally annexed by Vladimir Putin. Moreover, in the likely event that Joe Biden wishes to rejoin the treaty, it will be an extremely time-consuming and expensive endeavor. (See video below.) 
In many cases, he citizens of the United States pool their resources for the good of all, so as to cover the costs of things like snow removal. This is called living in an organized society. 
A symptom of the decline in the U.S. educational system is the dramatic rise in the number of conspiracy theorists.
Who didn’t see this coming?
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If there is any certainty about what will happen in the White House over the next two months, it’s the destruction of any remaining protections for our environment and park lands.
Most people reading what Carl Sagan wrote here will blame our educational system, claiming, not completely without merit, that it stultifies the mind with rote learning required for good test scores, and that it cranks out conformists incapable of critical thinking. Many will go even further, and suggest that this is deliberate, i.e., that government and corporate chieftains specifically do not want people capable of thinking for themselves.
This isn’t really a tradition. The only time it became a live issue was Obama’s declining to go after GW Bush and Dick Cheney for war crimes in Iraq. e.g., pursuing an aggressive war, torture, etc. 
Here’s an excellent, albeit terribly pessimistic article presenting the case that 
