well I'm in floods of tears www.thetimes.com/article/5ecd...
When Mats Steen died from a muscle-wasting disorder, his parents believed that his life had been a tragically lonely one — until hundreds of emails from strangers arrived. It turns out that he’d found...
Dick Cheney is the supervillain most responsible for my political awakening. Cool, so what? It’s good to try to win. And anyone who thinks there are no conservatives who can change their minds is a bubble person who has never known any conservatives
As John Dickerson likes to point out, it's not just debates but the entire exercise of campaigning that is a poor proxy for actual presidential job performance. And it's only gotten worse as we've turned the whole thing into more of a spectacle.
"As a former competitive debater, I am deeply sympathetic to the form," @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social writes. "But debate is a deeply unreliable activity for getting closer to the truth." wapo.st/3Nvat4V
Debates elevate the worst aspects of our politics. Let’s try something else.
People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse
the media just unblinkingly accepts a recession-indicuing, ultra-fashy deportation scheme is a housing relief plan now
It amazes me how little NY Dems have learned from the last oh, idk, decade. Their basic errors arguably lost the state its fair representation in Congress and cost the party the House in 2022, along with a host of more local tragedies. And the same leaders are still there making the same mistakes.
Americans are about to experience their quadrennial re-introduction to the creaky machinery we call the "Electoral College," and so I renew my pledge to journalists: Please stop describing Congress's role in the process as "certifying" the results!
The appeal comes as former president Donald Trump lays the groundwork to again challenge the outcome of the vote should he lose his bid to return to the White House.
A local politics thing about which I am weirdly passionate is that money generated from fines should go into the topline city budget, not the specific budget of whatever department levied the fines
