As I'm sure you all remember, almost two years ago exactly we had a great deal of statistical fun trying to figure out what was going to happen to the Detroit Pistons during the rest of the 2023-24 season, given that they had lost an...
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Yesterday I drove into Buena Vista, a small town in the middle of the Colorado mountains that's pretty evenly split between Democrats and Republicans voting wise, and I noticed that.
https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2003442658643988641 Letter to former US gymnastics team doctor postmarked three days after Epstein’s death A disturbing letter that appears to have been written by Jeffrey Epstein and sent to Larry Nassar,.
I assume Rob will have some things to say about this, and I also assume this means there will be a Trump law school, a Trump labor relations act, and a Trump chair in political science soon enough. President Trump is announcing a new class...
https://twitter.com/grynbaum/status/2003109023705387478 I mean this does create a kind of grimly amusing situation, in which "the principals," such as Bari's best pal Stephen Miller (she apparently has his cell number; I.
Bari Weiss is a fascist collaborator, and should be treated accordingly by all real journalists. Anybody at CBS News with any professional self-respect should quit tomorrow if not sooner, https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3makcwgejas27.
I hadn't realized Paul Krugman was writing on this same topic when I wrote about it yesterday. He makes some compelling points about why economic sentiment is at the lowest level it's been in the last half century, despite the fact that classic economic indicators...
I've been meaning to write about this interesting essay by Michael Green, about how the poverty line could be pegged at $140,000 per year, if we're talking about what he.
I've been dealing with power outages for the past couple of days because of a bad windstorm in Boulder, so apologies for the more than usually intermittent blogging. Christopher Newfield.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has attempted to explain President Donald Trump’s “mathematically impossible” claim that he is cutting drug prices by up to 600 percent after being grilled by a Fox News host. During Trump’s Wednesday night address to the nation, where he pushed a number of mistruths and...
Hannah Arendt notes at numerous points in her work that Nazism was made possible a total collapse of both intellectual standards and any sense of public decorum or decency is.
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research centerRussell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research.