By calling yesterday’s UN Security Council’s Gaza ceasefire resolution “nonbinding,” US Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield was delivering Joe Biden’s message to Israel: Feel free to ignore this. Israel has obliged. The U.S. had abstained.
We Can’t Consume Our Way to Prosperity
Once upon a time, John Stuart Mill could write these words truthfully ("Of the Influence of Consumption on Production," 1844): It is no longer supposed that you benefit the producer by taking his money, provided you give it to him again in exchange for his goods. He...