“The trade war between the U.S. and China is obscuring a key fact: economic growth for both countries will be significantly slower than in the past, for the simple reason that their populations are aging rapidly.”
You should have the right to keep your Alexa silent.
“Searching for the Mendoza Line of on-base percentage”.
“Remembering when is an irresistible tug and drug on The Sopranos, its characters as mired in the monochrome past and the thickets of family lore as the residents of William Faulkner’s fabled Yoknapatawpha County. What Chase and his writers grasped is that the nostalgia of Tony and company isn’t a soft cotton-candied wistfulness of the way things were. There’s a hard edge to it, an anger simmering beneath, a bitter entitlement looking for an excuse to lash out. It’s the gripes of wrath.”
About that Marriott data breach…
Don’t be like Mike Pence. Mike Pence is not a good role model.
“Understanding the psychological barriers to using public and active transportation”.
What kind of vote fraud do Republicans not want to talk about at all? The kind committed by Republicans, of course. Which is also the kind that is completely unaffected by the various voter ID schemes Republicans have been insisting we need to combat vote fraud. Just, you know, not this kind of vote fraud.
“But the United States has an unusually long lame duck period — about two months at the federal level, and a similar amount of time in most states. And it still has this lengthy interregnum for no good reason. In the horse and buggy days, when it might have taken weeks for a new member of Congress to travel to the capitol, there was a logic to keeping outgoing lawmakers in place if an emergency should arise. […] But now we live in an era of interstate highways, airplanes, and smart phones. Barring an emergency, there’s no reason why a new lawmaker cannot travel from their home to the capitol in mere hours.”
“No one is really bothering to hide the purpose of this lame duck legislation: to continue the Republicans’ hold on state government, even at the expense of core democratic principles like respect for the separation of powers and majority rule.”
“It is clearly partisan, and it’s motivated by results of the election. It’s a sore loser session. None of these bills were introduced before the election. They didn’t consider them during regular session. There’s no way the GOP would have come back in to limit the power of the governor of their own party.”
“Good to know that when the speaker of the House pours kerosene on conspiracy theories, he’s not rooting for the republic to burn down.”
“It’s Almost Impossible to Be a Mom in Television News”.
The Golden Dukes are coming.
“The one and only decent idea to emanate from the Trump White House — a bill that proposes reforms to the nation’s archaic criminal justice system — is about to die in Congress’ lame-duck session because of one man: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky).”
“Instead, we should stop bringing candidates with questionable track records on race before the full Senate for a vote.”
The Wall Street Journal opinion piece on judges is behind a paywall, Kuff. Any chance of posting it as an archived link so we can see it?