NOTE: Entries today later and briefer than usual, or missing. Visitors are encouraged to scroll down to previous ones and click on sources of news and opinion for fresher news and opinion.

For today, links to three articles from Harper’s Magazine; others are accessible (I hope) by clicking on its name below, or by buying or borrowing a copy. (MEDIA 7-15-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  GAZA and UKRAINE entries are HERE and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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FROM AUGUST 2025 ISSUE  Playing dead: Do the Democrats really want reform? by Andrew Cockburn | Harper’s Magazine  On April 25, I arrived in Grand Island, a city of some fifty thousand in the heart of rural Nebraska, for a People’s Town Hall. READ MORE . . .

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FROM AUGUST 2025 and JULY 1970 ISSUES  The démodé party, by John Kenneth Galbraith | Harper’s Magazine  The Democratic Party has, within a relatively short span, lost its purpose; it has become a defender of the status quo, a role in which . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM AUGUST 2025 ISSUE  Casus belli: The origins of the war in Ukraine. A review of two books, by Samuel Moyn | Harper’s Magazine  Does ending a war depend on rethinking how it began? Head-spappingly fast after the United States initiated direct talks with Russia in February [2025], the question of . . . READ MORE . . .

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