“The most memorable contribution to this year’s American political literature, however, was not a printed book. The Trump Tapes, subtitled “Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump” …offers a passport to the heart of darkness” theguardian.com/books/2022/dec…

.Lloyd Green with the best and most succinct summary of Bibi's tsuris I've seen. Plus I had no idea S&P was contemplating a downgrade of Israel's rating. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Political Resurrection Already Looks DOA thedailybeast.com/netanyahus-pol… via The Daily Beast

From 2022 -- Burns and Martin are anxious. They quote Malcolm Turnbull, a former prime minister of Australia: “You know that great line that you hear all the time: ‘This is not us. This is not America.’ You know what? It is, actually.” theguardian.com/books/2022/may…

US already brings up the rear in life expectancy among developed nations. Does anyone expect RFK to bring positive change? oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/d90b….

President Trump has made it perfectly clear — he would like to use the power of the federal government to silence his critics.