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The dollar is not going away, and China won't eliminate it. The more dangerous threat is less flashy and more subtle: Washington's aggressive use of the financial and geopolitical advantages that derive from the dollar could ultimately undermine the political underpinnings that launched them in the first place.
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The Pentagon is not the whole American war machine. Its costs are scattered across Energy, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, intelligence agencies, and other parts of government, turning a multitrillion-dollar security apparatus into a collection of ordinary budget lines. The money is public. The total is not.
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What happens when the machinery of American power begins to resemble the balance sheet of the people directing it? Under transactional executive leadership, diplomacy, resource policy, and private wealth can stop operating as separate spheres—and start feeding one another.
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John Fetterman’s Republican fundraising connections offer a glimpse of a political system in which candidates can keep the party label while building independent networks of donors, media allies, and voters around themselves.
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A political dispute can be settled. A sacred struggle cannot. But the distinction is not going to be easy to overlook in an America where theology has begun to get into the language of power.
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For years, politicians and pollsters have treated educational attainment as a stand-in for economic class.
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The climate debate keeps treating U.S. emissions as an accounting problem. But the harder question is what happens when the world’s most powerful military, its global network of bases, and its economic influence are treated as separate from the environmental crisis.
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The issue isn't just inflation, globalization, automation, or the transformation of the job market. But underlying all those forces lies a much overlooked aspect of the American political discussion: the weakening of workers' bargaining power.
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