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 …
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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1.21 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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11.30 George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president, dies at 94. 11.30 Barck Obama, quoted in The Atlantic: “There was a reverence there for that [Oval] office that is independent of you, and if you don’t feel that, then you shouldn’t be there. Because a lot of fights, a lot of sacrifices, a lot of bloodshed …
10.31 Trump: “Paul Ryan should be focusing on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions on Birthright Citizenship, something he knows nothing about! Our new Republican Majority will work on this, Closing the Immigration Loopholes and Securing our Border!” 10.30 Paul Ryan: “You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order.” 10.30 Whitey Bulger, …
8.16 Paul Waldman in the Post: “The problem of inequality didn’t start with Trump. He has, however, done everything he can to make it worse. He gave a gargantuan tax break to the wealthy and corporations; the latter took that tax break and spent it on stock buybacks, which has the effect of boosting stock …
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7.28 Bryn Stole in the Times: “in the last decade or so, the crowds at large scale re-enactments have dwindled. Longtime hobbyists are aging out and retiring — soldiers in their 50s and 60s filled much of the camp at Gettysburg — and younger people aren’t marching onto mock battlefields in nearly the same numbers. …
7.17 Megan McArdle in the Washington Post: The poor are still poor because, despite their material goods, they still lack public dignity and control over the most important facts of their lives, such as where they live and how their children are educated. By those measures, the War on Poverty is far from over; indeed, …
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