What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old? By George Akerlof (2001 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/opinion/trump-bls-fired-labor-jobs-data.html
Most children learn that flipping the board doesn’t make them the winner. It just means the game is over. In a democracy, the same lesson holds. We need our referees. We need our scorekeepers. And most of all, we need leaders who understand that losing the game fairly is far more honorable than winning by force.
Why so? Because when presidents flip the board, it’s not just a game that ends. It’s the pieces of democracy that get scattered to the floor.
Trump and his allies mount a pressure campaign against US elections ahead of the midterms
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/politics/trump-elections-pressure-campaign
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/opinion/trump-bls-fired-labor-jobs-data.html
Most children learn that flipping the board doesn’t make them the winner. It just means the game is over. In a democracy, the same lesson holds. We need our referees. We need our scorekeepers. And most of all, we need leaders who understand that losing the game fairly is far more honorable than winning by force.
Why so? Because when presidents flip the board, it’s not just a game that ends. It’s the pieces of democracy that get scattered to the floor.
Trump and his allies mount a pressure campaign against US elections ahead of the midterms
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/politics/trump-elections-pressure-campaign
Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/not-bang-truth-social-post-215435818.html
The problem is not that Trump is going to spark a nuclear crisis with a post about two submarines—at least not this time. The much more worrisome issue is that the president of the United States thinks it is acceptable to use ballistic-missile submarines like toys, objects to be waved around when he wants to distract the public or deflect from bad news, or merely because some Russian official has annoyed him.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/not-bang-truth-social-post-215435818.html
The problem is not that Trump is going to spark a nuclear crisis with a post about two submarines—at least not this time. The much more worrisome issue is that the president of the United States thinks it is acceptable to use ballistic-missile submarines like toys, objects to be waved around when he wants to distract the public or deflect from bad news, or merely because some Russian official has annoyed him.