America’s Puppet: Meet Juan Guaido

“Ultimately, we see our story as about the collapse of the white working class after its heyday in the early 1970s, and the pathologies that accompany this decline,” so write two Princeton economists.  Read more.

Juan Guaidó is a useful pawn for U.S. interests in Venezuela, but is he expendable?  Read more.

In January 1897, Frederic Remington, a 19th-century painter famous sent a telegram to William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the New York Journal: “Everything is quiet. There is no trouble. There will be no war. I wish to return.” Hearst replied: “Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” Read more.