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OPINION - Joe Biden is no longer mentally well enough to be president

The spectacle of Joe Biden’s psychological and cognitive decline is both sad and deeply alarming. At a press conference in Hanoi on Sunday, the 80-year-old US president was cut off mid-flow by his aides after yet another rambling and often incomprehensible performance in which he described climate change deniers, bafflingly,…

Evening Standard

How Hippies Saved the Fourth Amendment

The Nixon administration did everything it could to curb antiwar activism. Then the courts said it had gone too far.

Reason

How Ronald Reagan led the 1960 actors' strike – and then became an anti-union president

Production on US film and television sets has ground to a halt as Hollywood actors have joined writers in walking off sets. At issue are residuals (or royalties), streaming services and the use of artificial intelligence.

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Fighting fire with fire in dangerous politics

Embattled Conservative MP Suella Braverman is taking a leaf out of the American right-wing reactionary playbook, and it is time to reach into the populist playbook for a response, argues Dr David Jenkins.

Newsroom.co.nz

The Left-Right Spectrum Is Mostly Meaningless

The political landscape doesn’t fit on a simple map.

Reason

Matt Dallek: The John Birch Society's Deep Influence on Trump's GOP

The George Washington University historian argues that the group's paranoid mindset and obsessions are front and center in the modern GOP.

Reason

Dave Cicirelli: Does Selfie Culture Destroy Real Individualism?

The "interactive artist" inspired by Jack Kirby and Barry Goldwater challenges social media and intellectual conformity.

Reason

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A gut feeling about Liz Truss’s politics

Brief letters: Political slogans | Delilah (I just cannot take any more) | Poetry for the masses | A trick question | Government acronyms

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss seems keen to make comeback, but is anyone else on board?

Former PM not trying to keep a low profile, but former allies have their own ambitions and few would risk a return

The Guardian - UK

LZ Granderson: Hip-hop is turning 50, and its work is not yet done

Dear hip-hop,

Los Angeles Times

Myth America review: superb group history of the lies that built a nation

Julian Zelizer and Kevin Kruse marshal a fine array of historians for a bestselling assault on rightwing nonsense

The Guardian - US

Is the Goldwater Rule outdated?

The Goldwater Rule restrains psychiatrists from diagnosing politicians from afar. Many say the rule is outdated

Salon

Gallego: Sinema did "nothing" to help

"Senator Sinema was nowhere to be found, at all," likely primary challenger says

Salon

GOP attack on democracy goes back to '64

Republicans started complaining about "voter fraud" in Black communities 58 years ago. Look where we are now

Salon

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The Conversation

Who's the most electable candidate? The one you like

Electability was a significant force motivating voters in the 2022 Democratic primaries.

Salon

How youth activists energized the right

Author Kyle Spencer on how right-wing funders turned Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens into media superstars

The Independent UK

Dr Bandy Lee warned five years ago that Trump was dangerous. She’s more worried now

Psychiatrist Bandy Lee works with gang leaders and maximum security offenders. When Donald Trump ran for office, she noticed frightening similarities and warned the world. Much of her predictions have come - or are coming - true. Now, she’s worried about America’s ‘demise’, she tells Sheila Flynn

The Independent UK

Once McCain's party, Arizona GOP returns to far-right roots

The far-right forces that former Sen. John McCain successfully marginalized within the Arizona Republican Party are back and in full control, with profound implications for one of the nation’s most closely matched battlegrounds

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Chicago Sun-Times

Congress should do more to prevent suicides

The new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline phone number must be sustainably funded so that confidential, voluntary services by trained counselors are accessible nationwide.

The Independent UK

Dr Bandy Lee warned five years ago that Trump was dangerous. She’s more worried now

Reason

Biden Shouldn't Meet Xi Jinping in China. He Should Do It in America.

The U.S. may not realize it, but it has the upper hand. It turns out communism doesn't work.

WEKU

In Kansas and Arizona, voters defy expectations to chart their own course

People bristle and resist when told what they can or cannot do. We knew this about guns, vaccinations and masks. And we are seeing some of that with regard to abortion rights, even in red states.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Cheney and Kinzinger deserve our support to save the soul of the Republican Party

On July 14, 1964, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller approached the rostrum of the Cow Palace in San Francisco. With a defiant smile on his face, he warned the assembled delegates of the Republican National Convention “that the Republican Party (was) in real danger of subversion by a radical, well-financed,…

Chicago Sun-Times

Views on Capitol riot not only objectionable perspective of conservatives

Attorney John J. Hamill argues in a recent op-ed that besides defending the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, everything else can be accepted as legitimate disagreement. Is white supremacy in the “wrong” category or is it an “honest difference of opinion?”

Salon

Race, police and politics: 1964 and now

America's first year of urban "riots" (or "uprisings") changed our politics forever — and not in a good way

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