i really overestimated the ability of a lot of you to discern irony from written text
YIMBYs & smart housing folks need to immediately and powerfully rebut these "millions of illegals are making housing expensive" lies. Not getting into the weeds and nuance of housing policy, but find ways to absolutely smash the narrative. No standing on the sidelines, planners.
Not to excuse a poor performance, but I do believe the campaign is right if they're intentionally trying to make sure Walz doesn't upstage or outperform Harris in any way, no matter how small -- for multiple reasons, Harris needs to always be perceived as the dominant leader of the ticket
A classic (from before almost all current undergrads were born :)
Occasional reminder that most everything one can learn from Thomas Friedman's NYT columns can also be learned from David Ignatius's WaPo columns. Also, with the latter you won't need to read Newly Coined Acronyms and 5 Simple Rules and other rhetorical bits that editors should have removed.
And we're growing up in our parents' house in Newark, where our neighbor owns a glove factory, and the girl we have a crush on wants a nose job...
The Atlantic sure loves to milk the topic of elite undergrad institutions and how our standards have fallen... That's also the topic of one of the few pieces by David Brooks that I think has stood the test of time (from ~23 years ago): www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
I've of many minds on this topic: - sometimes profs would haze students with too much reading that wasn't instructionally useful - do Harvard undergrads ever actually do any homework? - the reporter mentions having read only 1 Austen novel; she would probably enjoy trying to read at least 2 more