This Ezra Klein piece on risk management has some good things in it, but it also irritated me quite a bit. Here is the lede: A few months ago, I had dinner with a friend who argued that it was time to rethink Donald Trump’s...
Author: Paul Campos
I'm opposed to fat shaming in every single possible social context. Except one. https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1262546619704147971 Bonus points to Anderson Cooper for not completely losing it on camera.
President says, sure, why not? https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1262475639283757056 https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1262477099341881350 Somehow I can believe that. (Pompeo):"I went to the President and made clear to him that Inspector General Linick wasn't performing a function.
A likely outcome of November's election, assuming it isn't canceled, is a Biden presidency with the Republicans clinging to a slight Senate majority. (Another definite possibility would be a 50-50 Senate split, which would create all sorts of difficult dynamics in regard to how to...
Commenter Bloix flagged this amusing and now once again all-too-relevant 1941 essay by the once-famous journalist Dorothy Thompson, regarding the sort of Americans who would go Nazi if it came.
Adam Serwer on birtherism: Birtherism was a statement of values, a way to express allegiance to a particular notion of American identity, one that became the central theme of the.
The Atlantic is running what looks like an interesting series on conspiratorial thinking in American culture (On a side note, it looks like Jeffrey Goldberg has almost miraculously found some terrific journalists who aren't white men). This essay by Katilyn Tiffany, about concerns over the...
One of America's greatest musicians turns 70 today. I have a very sharp memory of the first time I heard "Superstition." It was during some sort of informal party at.
The last three and a half years have been a non-stop exercise in "imagine if Obama," to the point where it's easy to get callous about today's daily example. But.
Read this essay by Sabrina Orah Mark: I send my sons on a scavenger hunt because it’s day fifty-eight of homeschooling, and I’m all out of ideas. I give them a checklist: a rock, soil, a berry, something soft, a red leaf, a brown leaf,...
Janis Joplin and Kris Kristofferson, Los Angeles, summer 1970. Clark J. Pierson photo/John Byrne Cooke Photography I think this analysis from Stanford psych professor Keith Humphreys is probably right, unfortunately:.
The SCOTUS will hear arguments tomorrow regarding whether various financial institutions have to obey Congressional subpoenas ordering them to turn over Donald Trump's taxes. Every lower court which has dealt.