

With Sean Payton taking over today, it’s worth making a broader point about how important getting the head coach hire right in the NFL is. One staple of talk radio dogma — which is also pr
Very sad scenes on social media of the massive destruction wreaked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake this morning in southern Turkey. The official death toll is currently near 4,000, but is expected to cl

A group called the “Atomwaffen” targeting vulnerable infrastructure seems, to me, very bad: A neo-Nazi leader recently released from prison has been arrested again and accused of plotting
I have some thoughts on negotiations which were largely inspired by this op-ed on the necessity to put pressure on Kyiv. I’ve also been reading George Packer’s biography of Richard Holbroo

Friendly faces everywhere Humble folks without temptation:
On February 6, 1886, white Knights of Labor members in Seattle started anti-Chinese riots, part of the larger racist white working class of the west coast seeking to eliminate Chinese workers from the

For the second film in my post-birthday favorite film marathon, I chose a bit of a dark horse–Terence Malick’s 1998 film The Thin Red Line. I’ve loved this since the first time I saw
- Going broke underestimating the intelligence of the public
- Head coach is an enormously important position
- Earthquake in Turkey
- Pizzagate at the Nation
- Nazis plotted to destroy Baltimore’s power grid
- Russia and the Polycrisis
- A tiger
- The great Chinese balloon freakout
- This Day in Labor History: February 6, 1886
- Shark tank makes dubious investment