An email from the Economist magazine reports on Jair Bolsonaro’s trial in Brazil. It says: Brazil’s supreme electoral court is expected to decide on Thursday whether Jair Bolsonaro, the country’s former president, abused his powers while a candidate for re-election… Read More »Bolsonaro Trial in Brazil
From Axios: The private space company True Anomaly plans to build a training ground in orbit to help the U.S. military prepare for conflict in space. Why it matters: Satellites have become a key part of warfighting efforts around the world,… Read More »Colorado Space Company
A Foreign Policy magazine newsletter reports on criticism of Macron’s China trip. It says: Some allies have blasted French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China last week as a political blunder in which Macron—currently unpopular back home—was feted by his… Read More »Macron’s China Trip
The following is from an email newsletter by Fareed Zakaria: At Americas Quarterly, editor in chief Brian Winter writes that critics of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) see him as paranoid about political threats lurking… Read More »Lula’s Problems
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) has published a note on President Reagan’s “Star Wars” antiballistic missile initiative on the 40th anniversary of its proposal on March 23, 1983. It quotes several people who were involved in the… Read More »My Oral History of Star Wars
This article in the New York Times describes the reactions of surviving American embassy hostages to the disclosure of the Reagan administration’s negotiations to hold the hostages captive until Reagan was elected. Some doubt that it happened or that it… Read More »Reaction to Disclosure on Carter Hostage Crisis
CATO published the following summary of the current status of the federal debt:
I am worried that my previous post may have been too favorable to bankers. Bankers are not universally loved. They have a reputation for foreclosing on decent people having a hard time financially, for not lending to anyone except those… Read More »Good Bank, Bad Bank
