Monatsarchive: August 2020

Former Republican National Security Officials For Biden (A project of Defending Democracy Together):

Anthony Zurcher, BBC: Call it Joe Biden’s „return to normalcy“ speech. That was Warren G Harding’s campaign slogan when he ran for president in 1920, with a campaign centred around healing and calming Americans after the trauma of World War … Weiterlesen →

I rather believe with Faulkner, “The past is never dead, it is not even past,” and this for the simple reason that the world we live in at any moment is the world of the past; it consists of the monuments and … Weiterlesen →

Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College: Tom Wicker’s piece, NYT 25.05.1975: BOSTON‐The approach of the Bicentennial year is causing a good many Americans to search for the “deeper causes” underlying the recent collapse of American foreign policy and the economic and … Weiterlesen →

In May 2018, in Bayreuth, an American acquaintance asked me my thoughts on the possibility of a Blue Wave in the November 2018 elections. The Blue Wave would return control of the Senate to The Democrats, to the Good People, and … Weiterlesen →

David Smith, The Guardian: And yet Obama fell into a familiar trap, implying that Trump is a freak case, a one-off, an aberration. He did not dwell on the forces of white identity politics, social media flame-throwing and politics-as-entertain­ment that … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: She said: “Donald Trump’s failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods. If you’re a parent struggling with your child’s remote learning, or you’re a teacher struggling on the other side of that screen, you know that what we’re … Weiterlesen →

Anthony Zurcher, BBC: Her speech delivered with smiles and warmth, but it took place in a rather haunting environment – a room constructed to replicate a party convention hall, complete with signposts for each state delegation, but devoid of the … Weiterlesen →

Robin Givhan Fashion critic, Washington Post: The warning from Kamala Harris and the convention’s third night: Our house is on fire “Each of us needs a plan, a voting plan,” said Sen. Kamala D. Harris, the vice-presidential nominee. It has … Weiterlesen →

New York Times: “We’re at an inflection point,” Ms. Harris said as she formally accepted the nomination. “The constant chaos leaves us adrift. The incompetence makes us feel afraid. The callousness makes us feel alone. “We can do better and … Weiterlesen →

Stephan Lehnstaedt, FAZ: Deutlich komplizierter war die Situation in Litauen, das wie Polen Wilna besitzen wollte. Ende 1918 waren zudem die Bolschewiki auf dem Vormarsch und konnten die Stadt einnehmen – sie waren der natürliche Verbündete für die Litauer, die … Weiterlesen →

Politico: “The good thing about a Biden run,” Neera Tanden, Clinton’s close aide who also advised the Obama administration on health policy, wrote to Podesta in 2015, in an email later exposed by WikiLeaks, “is that he would make Hillary … Weiterlesen →