Trump's mentors, as a young construction tycoon, in New York, were Roy Cohn and John Gotti, and he mixed with capos of the Five Families, who all took their cut of the various construction projects. … (View Post)

The US "Security Guarantee" would be meaningless, and everyone knows that. The whole talks process is a farce, since Putin will not agree to anything which does not "deal with the root… (View Post)

Russia is in fact, one of the most non-religious countries in the world. But still, people like Bannon and Vance have persuaded themselves that it is The Third Rome, and Putin is the defender of Whit… (View Post)

If you make life worse for the median worker, you can certainly reduce "poverty", by that measure. (View Post)

Theoretically, you could have a society, where everyone is guaranteed at least 60% of the median income. In practice you could only achieve that by a huge degree of coercion and injustice. (View Post)