This week, the President-Elect began to make good on his promise to arrest foreigners who’ve crossed our borders to do work Americans could have done.
- Pieces on democracy in peril: Faiola on Poland, Krugman on the U.S.
- Garry Kasparov writes of autocracy’s shocking moment.
- Hunter S. Thompson predicted Trumpism when he wrote of the Hell’s Angels.
- Angus Deaton considers the role opioids have played in our political turbulence.
- A Realty TV contestant won the “prize” of working for Chechnya’s warlord.
- Shenzhen manufacturers collectively shrug at Trump’s threats.
- David Frum analyzes the ramifications of the Ankara assassination.
- Turkey became a post-truth state. Europe and the U.S. may be next.
- Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran fears the shift from liberal governance.
- In 2000, Ian Frazier wrote of capitalism and democracy increasingly in conflict.
- In the 1950s, Henry Miller worried about America’s technological future.
- Charles Homans eulogizes Edgar Mitchell, the astronaut who was most far out.
- Brad DeLong drops truth bombs about our economic system.
- Another smart piece about jobs and automation by Claire Cain Miller.
- Gillian Tett wonders if machines will complement rather than replace workers.
- Eric Eyre investigates Big Pharma profiteering on pain in West Virginia.
- Big Pharma aims to export America’s opioid crisis all over the world.
- Louis Harris was the most famous American pollster of the twentieth century.
- Drugs and alcohol have often helped lubricate the war machine.
- Old Print Article: Chuck Connors, “Mayor Of Chinatown,” dies. (1913)
- A brief note from 1947 about an Oakland zoo auctioning off its animals.
- A brief note from 1890 about an act of grisly vengeance by Russian nihilists.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Michael Lewis, Oral Roberts, etc.