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Heidi Schneider, our Houston correspondent, unwraps some indecent political behavior in Texas. Quick to blame others, these folks have no competence and no shame. On a related note, I highly recommend to you Ezra Klein’s recent podcast, “The Texas Crisis Could Become Everyone’s Crisis.” Three smart people talk not only about the Texas debacle but …
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Biden’s Win, House Losses, and What’s Next for the Left It’s Time to Look Ahead. Today is a victory, but the fight is far from over. The 2020 Election Has Brought Progressives to the Brink of Catastrophe Thank God this overwrought election is behind us. Joe Biden will be a good (interim?) …
Anti-Intellectualism Is Killing America The GOP’s Murderous Anti-Intellectualism Will Trump’s Broken Promises to Working-Class Voters Cost Him the Election? With Trump the country’s ignorance has reached a kind of apocalyptic summit with the notion that reason must take a back seat to absurdity and dementia. We learned today that the administration’s trade advisor, Peter Navarro, …
In Praise of Trimmers Biden’s debate-night comment on oil highlights the delicate tightrope he must walk on climate change Biden Pledges Ambitious Climate Action. Here’s What He Could Actually Do. Trimmer is a good old English word, usually meaning “a person who adapts their views to the prevailing political trends for personal advancement,” a flip-flopper …
Trump at the Debate Was Like America in 2020: Not Winning ‘The Debates, Like Everything Else in 2020, Were a Dumpster Fire’ Malaika Jabali: ‘A frustrating debate that ignored big issues’ Trump would be insulting and contentious; Biden would bore you with policy and his accomplishments. That’s pretty much what they did last night at …
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Trump is like a compulsion, something you can’t get away from. Dealing with him is like eating too much: you’re uncomfortable afterwards and feel somewhat guilty. At a really good dinner with friends last night (I did not eat too much), the conversation naturally turned to Trump and the U.S. political chaos. Passing over less …
Joe Biden Had Better Watch It As the election approaches Joe is getting advice from some rather unlikely sources. This comes from folks like Andrew Sullivan and Bret Stephens, whom I want to call liberalized (i.e., wimpy) conservatives. Each enjoys taking on the follies of the far right while advancing the cause of what might …
A Plague of Willful Ignorance Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Flight from Reason: How America Lost Its Mind Sometime in or around 1970 I encountered Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Daitch Shopwell supermarket around the corner from where I lived in New York. You couldn’t miss him—a big tall red-faced guy—someone …
Good morning. And thank you, Mr. Crump. Everyone liked my Philadelphia speech last Tuesday, but I fired my speechwriter so we could try a new tack. We’ve got a new campaign to talk about because the country’s going to hell in a handbasket. You know it and I know it. Everyone but Trump and the …
Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People. Trump Threatens to Unleash Gunfire on Minnesota Protesters Horace Silver: The Natives Are Restless Tonight From the days of the Klan, through Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Ahmaud Arbery and now George Floyd, the U.S. has been saturated with black lynchings—daily, weekly, however you can …