David Frum, writing at The Atlantic, regarding his jarring appearance as a guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Before getting to the article, I was asked about the nomination of Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense — specifically about an NBC News report that his heavy drinking worried … | Continue reading
President Biden has a moral obligation to do what he can for patriotic Americans who have risked it all. | Continue reading
Democrats Are the HR Department of Political Parties. | Continue reading
Tom Nichols, for The Atlantic: Paradoxically, however, Trump’s reckless venality is a reason for hope. Trump has the soul of a fascist but the mind of a disordered child. He will likely be surrounded by terrible but incompetent people. All of them can be beaten: in court, in Cong … | Continue reading
The United States is about to become a different kind of country. | Continue reading
Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens. | Continue reading
Of course twitter is the best political weapon. I had that story in 2017. It was obvious then. No one listened. | Continue reading
Ellen Cushing, in a well-meaning piece for The Atlantic: NPR, citing internal Post correspondence, reported that “more than 1,600 digital subscriptions had been cancelled less than four hours after the news broke.” It was a reasonable impulse. But if Bezos is indeed why the Post … | Continue reading
Mitch McConnell's Worst Political Miscalculation. January 6 was a moment of clarity for the Republican Senate leader about the threat of Donald Trump. It didn’t last. | Continue reading
Jeffrey Goldberg, in a must-read, must-share piece for The Atlantic (this is a gift link, which should get you through The Atlantic’s subscriber paywall, and which link I encourage you to share with every potential voter you know): In their book, The Divider: Trump in the White H … | Continue reading
Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had.’ | Continue reading
Musk is camped out in Pennsylvania, working on Trump's ground game. Heard Trippi's guest yesterday mock Musk, but I think this may be the moment the Dems wish they had worked more closely with the open web. | Continue reading
What Harris appeared to understand, better than anyone else who has debated Trump, is that the key to defeating him is to trigger him psychologically. | Continue reading
The truth about Trump's press conference. (He’s a lunatic.) | Continue reading
In my experience AIs are more intelligent than most humans. | Continue reading
Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel's deeply-reported piece about the events leading up to this weekend's drama; paywall-free link # | Continue reading
By the same criteria you could say the New York Times is a far-right news organization. Whatever the story is about Twitter, it’s still developing. Journalism should be as rigorous in deciphering the intentions of journalism. | Continue reading
Republicans thought about running without Trump in 2024—but lost their nerve. They’re heading for electoral disaster again. | Continue reading
When financial panic looms, reporters need to stick to the facts. On September 17, 2008, the Financial Times reporter John Authers decided to run to the bank. In his Citi account was a recently deposited check from the sale of his London apartment.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
At a moment when institutional distrust is surging, there's an urgent need to support civics education. The debate about the role technology plays in society is as old as humankind's ability to use tools and techniques to change our world.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
Liberal democracy in Mexico is under assault. Worse, the attacker is its own president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. "In the past two years, democracies have become stronger, not weaker. Autocracies have grown weaker, not stronger." So President Joe Biden declared in his 2023 Sta … | Continue reading
Why Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy, and so many other cowards in Congress are still doing Trump’s bidding | Continue reading
The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say. Early December might have marked the first time anyone ever asserted a First Amendment right to see the president's son's penis, an argument that the Framers likely did not anticipate.(t … | Continue reading
On the ground in the Georgia congresswoman's alternate universe She was very late. A man named Barry was compelled to lead the room in a rendition of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A." to stall for time. But when she did arrive, the tardiness was forgiven and the Cobb County … | Continue reading
Media Winter is here once more, and it is getting ugly. It seems as though every news giant is shrinking toward 2023 through end-of-year layoffs, hiring freezes, or otherwise Dickensian austerity. Text chains and Slack channels are bursting with farewells and expressions of uncer … | Continue reading
Taffy Brodesser-Akner on stress dreams, the beauty of long scenes, and translating her novel, Fleishman Is in Trouble, to the small screen. Novelists aren't often given the chance to adapt their own work, let alone creatively control each element of the process.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
The industry’s latest meltdown is not like all the rest. | Continue reading
Twitter would have to become functionally worse, and something else would have to be obviously better. | Continue reading
The company’s CEO explains his decision to close its store in the “city of chaos.” | Continue reading
Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world. | Continue reading
Should you wash your hands? Yes. Does it matter for respiratory viruses? Not as much as we once thought. | Continue reading
I self-censored, not because of a direct fear of censorious mobs but because of the way the threats to free speech are now depicted. | Continue reading
Were we always this lonely and embittered? | Continue reading
It’s just missing the 3-D space to virtually hang out in. | Continue reading
To speed up permitting for energy projects, we’ll need to rethink community input. | Continue reading
The line between human and computer play is very hard to find. | Continue reading
Two new books show that movement helps us see the rhythms we all share—whether in the angular works of Martha Graham or in the natural choreographies of daily life. | Continue reading
It’s expensive and time-consuming. But the data prove that kids benefit. | Continue reading