June 12: Welcome to CHAZ

In which, we meet CHAZ, address the ongoing efforts to confront racism in the US, and try to make sense of a President and economy that seem to defy explanation.

Welcome to CHAZ

Protests, and some riots and looting, continue in the wake of the George Floyd murder, but it seems the general narrative has split into two streams: addressing police violence and eliminating America’s remaining vestiges of racism. We'll talk about the latter below, but in this section I look at the issue of police violence. After days o…