Indigo Olivier

2 months ago | newrepublic.com | Indigo Olivier

Imagine a trillion-dollar publicly-traded company that was regularly in the news for corruption scandals, couldn’t account for a majority of its assets, and has never passed an audit. Shareholders would demand resignations. The SEC would launch investigations. Executives would be forced to resign. Yet, when it comes to the Pentagon, the largest line item in the federal discretionary budget, this persistent level of dysfunction has largely been met with indifference.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Indigo Olivier

Imagine a trillion-dollar publicly-traded company that was regularly in the news for corruption scandals, couldn’t account for a majority of its assets, and has never passed an audit. Shareholders would demand resignations. The SEC would launch investigations. Executives would be forced to resign. Yet, when it comes to the Pentagon, the largest line item in the federal discretionary budget, this persistent level of dysfunction has largely been met with indifference.

Jul 23, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Indigo Olivier

In the week since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Democrats have loudly denounced politically motivated violence. “Politics must never be a literal battlefield and, God forbid, a killing field,” Biden told the nation after the shooting. But on Wednesday, Congress is welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity related to his policy of large-scale slaughter in Gaza.

Jul 11, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Indigo Olivier

Brooks and Dintersmith’s memo imagines a process whereby Biden would step down inmid-July and open the race to other candidates who would compete in a “primarysprint” that would involve viral outreach with the help of figures likeMichelle Obama and Taylor Swift. Delegates would then select a candidatethrough ranked-choice voting at the convention in August, where the finalnominee would be presented by Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton.

Jul 11, 2024 | yahoo.com | Indigo Olivier

In 2016, I went to the polls with the intention of holding my nose and voting for Hillary Clinton. I was told that the election (my first) would be the most important one in my lifetime, that a Republican victory represented an existential threat to our democracy, that to sit it out or vote third-party was a clear vote for Donald Trump.