Donald Trump You know, they rigged the second election. I had to win it, had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would have had a bad ego for the rest of my life. No, I really have a big ego,...
Author: Paul Campos
A friend was venting about new work rules that require he spend X amount of time in the office: Sure love commuting to work just to sit in Zooms all.
The Washington Post laid off hundreds of employees on Wednesday, which its former executive editor said “ranks among the darkest days” in the newspaper’s history. Approximately one-third of employees were affected. Staffers.
Here's a fascinating essay well worth your time from political scientists Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach, who argue that: (1) Moderation as a political strategy used to make much more sense than it does today, in what has become a highly polarized and nationalized political...
Misogyny is the key to this whole thing, as I believe one of our commenters has been pointing out for awhile now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyoVXuZHk38 . . . to add a couple.
David Dayen hasan essay on the ongoing furious monetization of sports fandom. When he interviewed me for the piece -- LGM commenter Victor Matheson, an expert on the economics of.
That's what his demand that the November elections be "nationalized" actually means: President Donald Trump called on Republicans to “nationalize the voting” in an interview that aired Monday, as his administration pushes to overhaul election ground rules ahead of the pivotal midterm races later this...
I looked at the LGM archives for the first week of 2021, and it's remarkable the extent to which the attempted coup on the 6th was something that should have.
The NYT has a forum on the Big Questions surrounding the current and future AI revolution/explosion/hype/whatever. Some thoughts as a starting point for an LGM discussion of this whole topic:.
Stephen Miller is often compared with considerable reason to Joseph Paul Goebbels, but he actually reminds me even more of Stalin's most craven lickspittles (Most of these men were eventually rewarded for their service by being shot). https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/2003636688787259747 In case you're wondering what the lie...
Andrew Gelman returns to a theme we've been kicking around for awhile, which is how in the New Gilded Age people of immense wealth create and nurture celebrity status, verging.
Well here's a real pick me up: You know what Kids Today have trouble sitting through, in a college class on films? Akira Mizuta Lippit, a cinema and media-studies professor.