I was very happy to have a quite lengthy conversation with John Harwood of CNN for his story on Biden and labor. For only a couple of quotes making it into the story, I do have to say that he summed me up well: The Amazon...
Unqualified crony running NY’s vaccinations leaned on county officials to try to save his boss’s job
Nice vaccines we have, shame if we had to stop handing them out in your county for a bit: New York’s “vaccine czar” — a longtime adviser to Gov. Andrew.
With the ARP in the books, this is the single most important component of the most important proposed legislation to pass: This fall, congressional districts around the country will be.
The pandemic has led to another spate of anti-Asian violence. There's been a good bit of reporting about these incidents lately. It's quite depressing. It's worth noting here that while our public discussions of racist violence tends to focus almost exclusively on Black Americans, the history...
This story about people in West Virginia trying to push Joe Manchin to the left came out in early February. It's interesting to read it now given Manchin's actions of.
Fascinating discussion of a 1973 dinner between James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, and Henry Louis Gates. The latter was just starting out. He was commissioned to talk to these two legends.
This profile of Andrew Cuomo has a bottom line you'd expect -- to the extent there's any chance of removing him from office, it's because pretty much everybody hates him. But this is also instructive: Last spring, when the coronavirus outbreak was surging in New York,...
This is the grave of Audie Murphy. Despite his gravestone, Murphy was almost certainly born in 1925 in Kingston, Texas. He probably lied about his age to enlist in the.
Will Wilkinson has an excellent response to Oren Cass's assertions that it's "atomism" to provide cash aid to families whose parents aren't currently working: When she lived with us, my.
I had never heard of Lou Ottens, but he was the inventor of the cassette tape and he died a few days ago. The tape--what a critically important technology for us Gen Xers. The era of mix tape, with its starts and stops and extremely bad...
Let's check in on the fine patriots Ron Johnson assures us are some of the most law-abiding people in America: U.S. prosecutors on Friday sketched out the gargantuan scope of.
If you send the RNC $60 or something (I didn't pay real close attention) you can get a copy of Green Eggs and Ham signed by Ted Cruz. https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1370573492438118400 All.