Capitalism & Neo-Colonialism

Capitalism & Neo-Colonialism

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'Nothing else is appropriate': Nancy Pelosi praised for 'class act response' to Trump rally shooting - Alternet.org
'Nothing else is appropriate': Nancy Pelosi praised for 'class act response' to Trump rally shooting - Alternet.org
Among political leaders who have reacted to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the MAGA hopeful's Butler, Pennsylvania rally Saturday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expressed sympathy and relief — surprising some experts. Taking to social media, Pelosi wrote via X (...
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'Nothing else is appropriate': Nancy Pelosi praised for 'class act response' to Trump rally shooting - Alternet.org
The Designated Mourner | Fintan O’Toole | The New York Review of Books
The Designated Mourner | Fintan O’Toole | The New York Review of Books
The “mournful, plaintive wail of Irishness” is the soundtrack for both the Kennedy and the Biden stories, in which triumph is always shadowed by calamity. There is in this structure of feeling no easy opposition of hubris and nemesis. There is just, as Obama said to Biden when his son Beau was dying, the awareness that “life is so difficult to discern”—difficult because it does not offer itself in the easy forms of the wonderful and the terrible but confuses the two by conjoining them as twins. The political manifestation of this awareness is not the upbeat rhetoric of the American Dream; it is a politics of empathy in which the leader shares the pain of the citizen.
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The Designated Mourner | Fintan O’Toole | The New York Review of Books