Birthday Cakes and Battle Tanks: The Empire Throws Itself a Party
As Trump hijacks the Army’s 250th anniversary for his own glorification, retailers falter, FEMA vanishes, and Elon Musk melts down on camera, welcome to another week in the American decline parade.
Good morning! It’s quiet on the surface, no explosions, no firings, no middle-of-the-night executive orders, but the ground is moving beneath our feet. The kind of slow-motion collapse that doesn’t make headlines until it’s too late. Like the crack of a glacier just before it calves into the sea. Economists Jeffrey Sachs and Richard Wolff have both been…
