A divided America benefits "special interest groups". If "we the people" are divided, our collective voice gets lost and splintered into social, demographic, class and geographic partitions that can be manipulated through social media and electoral maps which can then be controlled and manipulated by highly organized special interest groups…
America is so deeply politically divided at its 250th birthday that it needs two separate and distinct celebrations on its opposite coasts on July 4th to celebrate this seminal holiday. But political schism does not disqualify what remains as a noteworthy achievement in longevity for this still young political experiment.
Nations still prepare brilliantly for the last war while the next one reinvents itself, drones in Ukraine and Iran, and the terrifying question of what nuclear powers do when conventional tools fail.
Foreign policy as table talk only works if you know the cards. Against Xi, Zelensky, and Iran, and a still-closed Strait of Hormuz, the bluff is getting expensive and the chips are real.
As this piece is written, President Trump is in Beijing. He arrived yesterday at Beijing Capital International Airport, where he was greeted not by Xi Jinping — as protocol and the president's own hype machine had suggested — but by a vice foreign minister and a vice president.
For most American football fans, the 1984 Super Bowl XVIII was a "snoozer". After all, the Los Angeles Raiders routed the Washington Redskins 38 to 9 that day in a game whose outcome felt preordained at the opening kick.
From Google Gemini's perspective it is important to know where one comes from because understanding one's own origins, acts as a rearview mirror that provides clarity for one's future path.