
The tenfold increase of tariffs on Liberation Day, heralding the dawn of Donald’s Golden Age, from about three percent to about 28 percent, was a mistake. Even if things work out over time, Team USA will still be in a worse place, economically, thanks to erratic Donald, who has raised the level of risk the world over.
Erratic authoritarian policies bring misery and lawsuits.
The picture below reminds me of Serge L. Levitsky, editor of Soviet Statutes and Decisions (later Statutes & Decisions: The Laws of the USSR and Its Successor States), a journal published by M.E. Sharpe, which was sold to Routledge in 2014.
Serge and I explored problems in translation as the USSR was imploding.

What is purported to be the full text of the Ukraine-USA minerals deal is here, including typos. I stopped reading after encountering the first one.
Lots of people are writing about the deal.

Last time I checked, Ukraine didn’t have a functioning legal system.
Apropos of my back, the stretching or strengthening exercise starting on all fours (hands and knees) and extending your right hand forward while simultaneously extending your left leg backward-is commonly called the Quadruped Opposite Arm and Leg Extension, or simply the Quadruped Arm and Leg Raise.
It is also referred to as the Bird-Dog exercise or Dandyamana Brahmanaasana by Yoga people.

We continue our running experiment in Kyiv. Not many people out there. A friend of mine told me there is a night running club in the capital, but I think I’ll pass.
And, finally, Timothy from Toronto, about Americans going along w/ tyranny. Or not.
The leaders of Team USA have put political goals — their own — ahead of moral obligations, which, er, is a recipe for disaster.