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Joseph S. Nye, Jr., one of the great scholars of international relations, died this week at the age of 88. Here, read some of his contributions to Foreign Affairs over the past five decades:

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

One wonders the impact of the orange->blue on the 3 key Lib incumbents losing election in Kitchener South—Hespeler, Cambridge and Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore. Not to mention Lib incumbent loses in Niagara South, Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, York Centre and Brampton West.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I did a dive into the ridings that are most exposed to trade disputes with the U.S. to look at how they voted and what this will mean for the 45th Parliament as we face the 47th President of the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/... #cdnpoli

submitted 41 days ago • 14 comments

Day-2 Best Remaining Players public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

With one week left before the #NFLDraft, dropping my final consensus top-250 big board. The full viz can be found at public.tableau.com/views/2025Co...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

The United States may be in the midst of a Trump-induced brain drain as the new administration threatens university funding, among many other unfriendly steps toward the world of academia.

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

going to need to start hearing from governors what they intend to do to protect residents of their states from the federal government

submitted 56 days ago • 196 comments

Trump is defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against him. The Constitutional Crisis is no longer some abstract idea, it's right here staring us in the face.

submitted 56 days ago • 422 comments

You may have heard of bread, cake, whole wheat or all-purpose flour, but did you know there's a difference between soft and hard flour? Hard wheat includes hard red winter wheat, hard red spring wheat, hard white wheat, and durum. Soft wheat includes soft red winter and soft white.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

The actual closest analogue for the present situation in the US is the Roman emperor Valens destroying the Danube frontier because he knew nothing about barbarians, mismanaging a refugee crisis, and then getting killed on a battlefield

submitted 61 days ago • 25 comments

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

submitted 62 days ago • 1830 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 63 days ago • 264 comments

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

submitted 67 days ago • 105 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 67 days ago • 1029 comments

Talk about climbing the ladder and then pulling it up just so you can pad your fucking retirement fund.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

How to destroy US hegemony: 1. The hegemon targets allies with trade war (and in some cases, actual war) 2. Allies respond by deepening ties to each other and reduce interdependency on hegemon 3. Hegemon threatens allies with escalation if they reduce dependency on them 4. Rinse & repeat

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

After 2 months of the current administration, it's clear Putin has no idea how to run the United States

submitted 72 days ago • 53 comments

It’s a sign of how peaceful the U.S.-Canadian border has been that most Americans know very little about how it came to be. But this doesn’t mean its current location was inevitable or without controversy, Nick Danforth writes.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

It has become too hard and too expensive to build physical things in the United States, argues @briancdeese.bsky.social. Policymakers must understand that the key to lowering prices for American consumers is the country’s ability to build new infrastructure.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

they called masks 'tyranny' but remain curiously silent as the regime kidnaps people off the street

submitted 73 days ago • 37 comments

I’m not judging individual scholars for leaving the US for theoretically safer universities. I’m judging the rest of you for not noticing or caring that roughly 75% of your adjunctified colleagues have neither the putative protection of academic freedom nor the means to leave.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Alarms are clanging at the U.S. geographic military commands around the globe. Is the White House listening?

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

✔️Japanese invasion of Manchuria ✔️Italian aggression against Ethiopia ✔️Military uprising in Spain ✔️Russian incursion into Ukraine 🔲Chinese annexation of Taiwan 🔲U.S. control of Greenland I can't quite put my finger on what happens next. 🤔

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

DubV looks solid. /s Anyone expect RichRod to change their scheme? #wvu

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Tomorrow parliament will be dissolved and an election will be held on April 28

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

Health Canada suggests limiting alcohol to 2 drinks per day unless you’ve already had 3 in which case fuck it

submitted 84 days ago • 17 comments

It's almost like these guys heard that empires fall after 250 years and they're scrambling to meet that 2026 deadline

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 84 days ago • 1517 comments

Canada’s retaliation against Trump’s tariffs is wiping American alcohol off store shelves—and fueling an unexpected push to deregulate its own restrictive liquor laws.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

🤣 Sounds about right.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Beware the Ides of March.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Myles Garrett just requested a trade again

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

I know what you’re thinking: We should mirror the United States government based on how this website is run.

submitted 91 days ago • 404 comments

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone who believes in liberal democracy must unequivocally recognize the second Trump administration’s illiberal nature and develop a democratic defense strategy, write Maciej Kisilowski and Anna Wojciuk.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Dropping my post-combine consensus big board Takeaways: EDGE class is real deep (6 in top 20) Tons of day-2 value at RB WR and CB are top-heavy public.tableau.com/views/2025Co...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments