# The Racket

> Explore the unseen connections behind world affairs, politics, disaster, and more. By Jonathan M. Katz

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## Posts
- [The Right Needs a Red Scare](https://theracket.news/p/the-right-needs-a-red-scare): Don't give one to them. Plus: Subscribe to Forever Wars (and The Racket)
- [The End of TPS for Haitians Is A Moment of Truth for Zohran Mamdani](https://theracket.news/p/end-of-tps-for-haitians): A guest post by Spencer Ackerman
- [Plus ça change ...](https://theracket.news/p/plus-ca-change): AND: A chance to see your name in THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE
- [BREAKING: Supreme Court justices can read](https://theracket.news/p/breaking-supreme-court-justices-can-read): In the big birthright citizenship case, the Constitution seems to have the upper hand
- [The Iran War is antisemitism fuel](https://theracket.news/p/the-iran-war-is-antisemitism-fuel): Trump's war is a crime. But too much of the opposition to it is riddled with the socialism of fools.
- [Donald the warmonger redux](https://theracket.news/p/donald-the-warmongerer-redux): Trump has his Iran War, and it's already escalating. Congrats to everyone who got us here.
- [The Bloody Show](https://theracket.news/p/the-bloody-show): In an unhinged State of the Union, Trump brought necropolitics to primetime
- [Goodbye, 'rules-based order.' Hello, Trump World?](https://theracket.news/p/goodbye-rules-based-order-hello-trump-world): Something shifted this week
- [The Most American Halftime](https://theracket.news/p/the-most-american-halftime-bad-bunny-super-bowl): Decoding Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl for the haters
- [WANTED: An Opposition Party](https://theracket.news/p/wanted-an-opposition-party): The Democrats ain't it. A dying media won't be it. Can the people make one?
- [When will he resign?](https://theracket.news/p/when-will-he-resign): The only question worth asking
- [The Monroe Doctrine is fake](https://theracket.news/p/the-monroe-doctrine-is-fake): Sorry!
- [Fate and 'The Stringer'](https://theracket.news/p/fate-and-the-stringer): Plus: Martial law in Minnesota?
- [Everything is the crisis and everything is a distraction](https://theracket.news/p/everything-is-the-crisis-and-everything-is-a-distraction): May Renee Nicole Good’s memory be a blessing
- [America First goes nation building](https://theracket.news/p/america-first-goes-nation-building): 'We're going to run the country,' Trump says of Venezuela
- [Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Gold](https://theracket.news/p/pirates-of-the-caribbean-curse-of-the-black-gold): Or, why fight when you can negotiate
- [Trump is losing it](https://theracket.news/p/trump-is-losing-it): 'It' is a broad category
- [Why the Epstein case matters](https://theracket.news/p/why-the-epstein-case-matters): Some thoughts and a response to David Brooks
- [Operation Southern Spear(ed)](https://theracket.news/p/operation-southern-spear-ed): The Nobel wannabe eyes another war
- [It wasn't supposed to be a playbook!](https://theracket.news/p/it-wasn-t-supposed-to-be-a-playbook): Glad everyone's enjoying my history of American empire. Please stop reenacting it.
- [Will a joke from 'The Office' cost the Democrats Virginia? And other questions.](https://theracket.news/p/will-a-joke-from-the-office-cost-the-democrats-virginia-and-other-questions): Mailbag!
- [This isn't peace](https://theracket.news/p/this-isnt-peace-israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire): It's a ceasefire, and a shaky one at that.
- [Short circuiting](https://theracket.news/p/short-circuiting-trump-shutdown-gaza-haiti): Round-up of the insanity. Plus: Send your questions.
- ['I'm a very strong person for free speech'](https://theracket.news/p/i-m-a-very-strong-person-for-free-speech): There are no contradictions here. The crackdown was always coming.
- [Has Trump found his Reichstag fire?](https://theracket.news/p/has-trump-found-his-reichstag-fire): Or will more people push back in time?
- [On political violence](https://theracket.news/p/on-political-violence-charlie-kirk): We're going from bad to worse
- [Denial ain't just a river (to the sea)](https://theracket.news/p/denial-aint-just-a-river-to-the-sea): The reports of genocide in Gaza are mounting. So are Israel's excuses.
- [Critical conditions](https://theracket.news/p/critical-conditions-washington-national-guard-gaza-internal-outsiders): Famine classified in Gaza as the military occupies DC
- [No, the 'UN' didn't lower its standards for declaring a famine in Gaza](https://theracket.news/p/no-the-un-didn-t-lower-its-standards-for-declaring-a-famine-in-gaza): Dissecting some denial
- [Substack's extremist ecosystem is flourishing](https://theracket.news/p/substack-s-extremist-ecosystem-is-flourishing): Yup, they're still at it.
- [Epstein and Empire](https://theracket.news/p/epstein-and-empire): Or, what I did on my summer vacation
- [Worst case scenario](https://theracket.news/p/worst-case-scenario)
- [How the US-Israel 'preemptive war' on Iran may have triggered something worse](https://theracket.news/p/how-the-us-israel-preemptive-war-on-iran-may-have-triggered-something-worse): Niceties matter, part 2
- [An illegal little war (that could become an illegal big war)](https://theracket.news/p/an-illegal-little-war-that-could-become-an-illegal-big-war): The niceties matter
- [Addicted to war](https://theracket.news/p/addicted-to-war): Just one more little Middle Eastern conflict, it'll be painless, they swear
- [The imperial boomerang hits LA](https://theracket.news/p/the-imperial-boomerang-hits-la): Plus: Israel strikes Iran
- [What story is the Boulder attack part of?](https://theracket.news/p/what-story-is-the-boulder-attack-part-of): Narratives matter, part infinity
- [Mr. Prince goes to Haiti](https://theracket.news/p/mr-prince-goes-to-haiti)
- [Let Joe go](https://theracket.news/p/let-joe-go): I'm sorry he's having a rough time. The rest of us have to move on.