8.31 US life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year. In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the estimated American lifespan has shortened by nearly three years. The last comparable decrease happened in the early 1940s, during the height of World War II. Life expectancy 78 …
7.27 Fort Ticonderoga 7.9 Axios: “What comes after neoliberalism? The answer, according to Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, is “productivism” — a new consensus, seen across the political spectrum, that ditches globalism and laissez-faire capitalism for something more local and state-directed. Why it matters: Productivism is a broad enough church to cover both Donald Trump and Joe Biden — …
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5.30 In the seventh game of their series, the Rangers beat Carolina 6-2, and advance to the conference finals. 5.28 Cathy and Tim, Shawn and Molly, Cara, Connor and Ivy, and Ginny and I endure an awful restaurant experience at Saratoga Lake. But we had fun nonetheless. 5.24 The Cushing Tour resumes at the New …
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Delivered at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan on May 10, 2022. Let me begin by thanking Dorothy Carvello for organizing this memorial for John. I know it was a labor of love, but we are all grateful for this chance to come together and celebrate our friend, and remember …
5.10 Rolling Stone: “Near the beginning of Donald Trump’s time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act …
4.30 Sports memorabilia firm Hunt Auctions purchases at auction the bat used by Jackie Robinson in the 1949 MLB All-Star Game for $1.08 million. 4.29 Samuel Goldman in The Week: “The prominence of college graduates in the new school of labor activism could make it difficult to find the sort of broad coalition that Democrats enjoyed during …
3.28 Federal Judge David Carter wrote in a ruling that [Attorney John] Eastman‘s strategy was “a coup in search of a legal theory” and that “[b]ased on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress” and conspired with Eastman to defraud the United …
2.28 Jennifer Rubin in the Post: `”We set up a perfectly unified alliance with the singular goal of making Putin pay a crushing economic price and inducing him to abandon his fixation on rebuilding the Russian empire. Our diplomatic work created unprecedented collaboration in the West, collectively imposing formidable sanctions. We overcame the European Union’s usual political …
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1.25-27 A quick trip to NYC. Tuesday night: The Music Man, with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster.. Wednesday: Moulin Rouge, followed by dinner at Red Hat on the River in Irvington with Paul and Anne. Thursday: Breakfast at the Suburban Diner in Paramus with Cara and Ivy, then right back home.
1.31 On The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast, Stewart and journalist Gabriel Gatehouse attempt to understand why so many people bought into the QAnon conspiracy theory. The Financial Times: ““”They ended up in some unexpected places. If you take the main conspiracy theory points literally — Hillary Clinton and other global elites are in a cabal of blood-drinking pedophiles — then obviously it’s nonsense. But …
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