Joe and Pete, I am looking at you. If Biden were a woman, even a woman with a stellar record (which Biden’s is not), he would already be gone given how garbled everything comes out. Pete’s style isn’t garbled, but he says absolutely nothing: Moderator: “What do you think about (this issue)?” Pete: “That … More On men who would no longer be Democratic candidates if they were women
…were already coalescing as the ball dropped in Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2008.” Sorry to end the year on a spirit of impending doom, but there you go: I tell it like it is, baby. I was one of the 23 historians in a Politico roundup (December 27 2019) imagining how the 2010s … More “The partisanship, and the populisms, that came to characterize the 2010s…
…appears to be in this Ukraine thing up to his eyeballs. How can someone who was a federal prosecutor become so alienated from the basic principles of inhabiting a position of public trust, as this article in The Washington Post suggests? The article also makes me think that John Bolton may have actually had something … More Rudolph Giuliani, international thug…
President Tucker Carlson. In today’s New York Times, the “white national economic populist” who is pretty, speaks in complete sentences, and seems to understand policy. Where Trump was a chaotic, undisciplined narcissist, the Carlson who wins in 2024 is a canny political strategist who makes good on Trump’s forgotten promise to embrace anti-corporate economic policies. … More Farhad Manjoo asks: what could be worse than Trump?
…check out this smart piece at Public Seminar by the Wilson Center’s Nicolás Saldías, in which he argues that “neoliberalism has become a shorthand whose usage does more harm than good.” Yes. And since I am the executive editor at this wonderful digital rag, props to New School grad students and Public Seminar editors Guillermina Altomonte … More Argentina is having elections too, so…
…my New School colleague Gustav Peebles and his co-author Ben Luzzato argued at Public Seminar this morning. Today, we are existentially threatened by our own waste production: atmospheric carbon. But what if we took a cue both from nature and endless generations of farmers, and re-labeled our carbon waste as central, as fertile; as the … More Carbon waste could be awesome…
…to Bernie, Joey, Elizabeth and a certain Sitting President. Fundamentally, of course, I think Carter is correct, but this puts me in a bind since my favourite candidate is 70. On the other hand, Elizabeth Warren seems to have far more energy than I do at 61: she took selfies for four hours after the … More You are too old, sez Jimmy Carter…
…a babe an extremely attractive professional woman, put it out there on Twitter. I saw her on Maddow last night, looking fresh as a daisy and really smart in a snappy red dress, tweeted it, and her Press Office retweeted it. Really! I am a little embarrassed for being a stalker-ish, but not really.
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