5.31 William Barr on 60 Minutes: “I am at the end of my career. Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don’t believe in the Homeric idea that you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries.” 5.30 Eugene Robinson in the Post: I ’ve been back …
3.30 Michael Che on SNL: “How can America run out of space [to hold immigrants]? We still have two Dakotas. Most countries don’t even have one.” 3.30 Albany 3.30 Albany 3.29 Thomas Piketty at Columbia 3.29 Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “So, what is the president afraid of? Is he afraid of the truth, that he would …
The terrible news of the past week has shocked and distressed the world. We extend our sympathies to those who lost loved ones. Our Muslim brothers and sisters in New Zealand and Holland, and all of our friends across the globe, need to know that Americans condemn not only those who perpetrated these actions, but …
2.28 Derek Thompson in The Atlantic: In 1980, the highest-earning men actually worked fewer hours per week than middle-class and low-income men, according to a survey by the Minneapolis Fed. But that’s changed. By 2005, the richest 10 percent of married men had the longest average workweek. In that same time, college-educated men reduced their …
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1.31 The Polar Vortex comes to New York 1.31 George Will in the Post: “[Klobuchar‘s] special strength, however, is her temperament. Baseball, it has been said, is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched. That is also true of politics, another day-by-day game with a long season. It requires an emotional equipoise, …
1.21 Wealth held by the world’s billionaires has grown from $3.4 trillion in 2009, right after the meltdown, to $8.9 trillion in 2017. (UBS and PwC Billionaires Insights via Bloomberg) The 3.8 billion people who make up the world’s poorest half saw their wealth decline by 11% last year. (Oxfam, which works to alleviate poverty, …
12.13 Margaret Atwood: The systematic effort to drive a rift between access to knowledge and the citizens of a country has a familiar ring to this dystopian novelist. When I wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, I made sure that nothing went into it that had not come from somewhere in history. I used journalists, historians, and …
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(This article first appeared in Jackal magazine in London.) The longer I live, the more mystified I become. You’d think it would be the other way around. The more times you’ve circled the sun, the hipper you would be. That ‘s not how it’s working out. When I was young, I was a veritable Pangloss, …
“I really believe I would have run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon. I would have run in there, and when I saw him, the first thing I would have done is create a diversion. I would have looked for maybe a science geek, you know, a kid with thick glasses and …
“`Written in late April, published in The Jackal this week. Many years ago, in diffident preparation for an unenvisioned future, I drifted through graduate school. I took a course in Middle Eastern Politics with an accomplished professor who had recently helped President Carter pull off the Camp David accords. One day he gave us an …
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